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Woodcreeper On The Road: BIGGEST WEEK IN AMERICAN BIRDING
Here I go again on another adventure! This time I’m heading to The Biggest Week for two days before a big international trip across the border to the Point Pelee Festival of Birds. This will be my first trip to both places and I’m totally stoked. To celebrate I’ll be posting the radar data for Pittsburgh, PA, Cleveland, OH, and Detroit, MI, and will try to make sense of it all in terms of migration at these two classic spring hotspots.
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More birds up the central flyway
Hot and heavy migration continued up the Central Flyway last night with the heaviest movement from Texas to Iowa. High pressure over the Great Lakes kept things a bit quieter from Michigan to the Ohio Valley, and the Northeast will have to wait for the latest low to clear before birds make it up that way in earnest. The real hotspots, last night, though, were in the metro D.C. area where heavy migration coupled with a strong low pressure system should lead to some fallout conditions this morning. Also, birders in eastern Kansas, where storms intersected birds in the early morning hours, should also be on the lookout for fallout at first light. Migration continued up the west coast as well, from California to Washington State.
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Birds make a big push up the central flyway last night!
Pre-sunset South Texas received some trans-Gulf migrants late yesterday afternoon, while sunset triggered migration across the southeastern US and New England. The Mid Atlantic and PA suffered another night of high-pressure-induced-migrant-shutout-fatgue, causing Drew to jump ship for Ohio and Vince to simply shake his fist at the sky over Cape May and say, “why, now that I have all the time in the world, am I being robbed of spring migration!?”. Dawn, on the other hand, finally picked up some birds in North Cackalacky as low pressure moved north and east over the Barbecue States. The Central Flyway was where all the big action was, as it lit up like Christmas after sunset (if Christmas colors were blues and greens). Migration in the west was heaviest along the Pacific coast but was evident throughout the mountainous west along with scattered precipitation.
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Birds continue to push north across the U.S.
Low pressure over the Southeastern US did keep some birds from migrating in the area immediately affected by precipitation, but otherwise migration was widespread across the country last night. Heavy migration was evident in the Upper Midwest where birds have been backed up for weeks due to an unseasonably cold and snowy spring. Birds continued to pour up the Central Flyway via south Texas as the Gulf Coast enters the latter half of migration for the 2013 spring season.
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Birds. All we really want is Birds. In the morning it’s Birds…
…and in the evening it’s Birds… National overview Birds were migrating last night across the western half of the US; up through Texas, the Gulf Coast, and Florida, and on the leading edge of this wacky front from the Upper Midwest to New York and down to the Smoky Mountains. Again, the best way to […]