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Migration Light (and some advances in dealing with my dual-personality disorder)
Good Morning! I’m trying something a little different today. So here’s the national composite for base reflectivity from last night at midnight, or ‘near-peak’ migration. As you can see, migration was evident across most of the landscape east of the Mississippi River, most of Texas, and into the Northeast as far as Northwestern New York. […]
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A light flight into the Mid-Atlantic
While things were really going gangbusters in the Central US, the East Coast was comparatively quiet. Still, some birds appeared to move last night over the Mid-Atlantic. Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation. The radar indicated a low-altitude flight across the Delmarva and New Jersey last night […]
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A nice flight into Central Wisconsin
Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation. Well, we’ve had a few flights so far this season, but this one was definitely the densest nocturnal event to date. Migration was evident across the entire Plains region down into the Gulf states last night, with Central Wisconsin and Minnesota […]
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Precip building over the Midwest and southwest flow for the Mid-Atlantic
I just returned from outside in Madison, WI, where I was met by a swarm of flying insects… don’t ask me what they were, but I can tell you one thing: they’re all prospective bird food! Spring is springing all around today. Southerly flow from the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes will mean migration […]
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Woodcreeper.com Spring 2012
Hello? Did somebody say migration? Well, if the three-week-early spring weather hasn’t yet broken your hibernation, nor the ever-increasing dawn chorus from half-hardies and winter residents yet rattled your ear bones; wake up and smell the zugunruhe! This $!&$’s about to go down! In case you hadn’t seen it yet, the Cornell Lab of O […]