Category: Birds

  • It just wasn’t in the cards last night…

    Here’s the radar from sunset last night through sunrise this morning. Frames are every 1/2 hour for reflectivity and velocity, and every hour for the regional composite. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation. As I mentioned last night, we were under some southerly winds which kept migration over New Jersey to a […]

  • Migration to the north, migration to the south…

    But not over New Jersey! We’re under the influence of southerly winds that appear to be keeping birds from migrating over the Garden State. Migration is in effect to the north of us, as well as to the south. It looks like we’ll have to wait until early next week before we see any substantial […]

  • Tough call last night…

    No time to do a real interpretation of the radar…heading out for some birthday fishing…but a brief look at the radar indicated that most movement was e–>w…I can’t rule out birds, but it seems unlikely. I’ll catch up tomorrow morning, until then, good birding!

  • Fall migration in full swing

    Here’s the radar from sunset last night through 5:30am this morning. Frames are every 1/2 hour for reflectivity and velocity, and every hour for the regional composite. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation. Well, the Northeast had their big push two nights ago, and we got ours last night. It looks like […]

  • Just a bit outside: A migration “near miss”

    I guess this night will go down as one of those ‘what might have been’ stories. A cold front was stretched horizontally above our area, causing favorable winds to the north (over northern New York) and west/southwest winds over our area. Had the front been a little bit lower by sunset, the winds over our […]

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