Category: Migration

  • Rutgers Scarlet Knight-Herons RIDE AGAIN (literally, this time!)

    I’ve been lucky to be a part of the Rutgers Scarlet Knight-Herons World Series of Birding  (WSB) team for the last two years. After last year’s event our team came to a consensus that we needed to try something different; something that was more in-line with our ideals as ecologists, conservationists, and more simply put: […]

  • The wheel in the sky keeps on turning…

    … I don’t know where I’ll be tomorrrrrroooooowwwww. Here’s the radar from sunset last night through sunrise this morning. Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation.   Seriously, I’m pretty sure that somewhere up there, between 600 and 3,000 feet above ground height, someone was cranking that infectious […]

  • The floodgates remain open

    If you revisit yesterday’s post you’ll get 90% of today’s story. Here’s the radar from sunset last night through 5:00am this morning. Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation.   What was yesterday a cold front has now stalled out and become a stationary front draped across New […]

  • Heavy migration into the Mid-Atlantic

    Here’s the radar from sunset last night through 5:00am this morning. Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation.   With southwest winds across most of the region from Texas to New York, birds again took to the sky in high densities. Migration was heaviest still in the south, […]

  • Light migration into the Mid-Atlantic

    Low pressure over the Northeast and a frontal boundary dipping down into the Mid-Atlantic appear to have kept any major migration from occurring over the region last night. Here’s the radar from sunset last night through 5:00am this morning. Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation.   South […]

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