Tonight’s weather forecast is looking interesting. Right now the forecast is calling for light southwest winds at the surface over Southern NJ, turning northwest around 7:00am tomorrow. That alone tells us little, because most of the birds migrating down the eastern seaboard will be doing so at much higher altitudes. The real story, then,  lies in the upper-level winds (at about 3000 feet) which are forecast to turn uniformly northwest from the Great Lakes to the Delmarva by 8:00pm. If this happens we should expect to see birds across northern New York taking to the air after sunset tonight and continuing on a NW->SE trajectory. That would put them on course for southeastern New Jersey by morning. I, for one, will be at the dike at Higbee’s tomorrow for what will probably be a nice early fall morning-flight.

Good Birding!

David