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Woodcreeper’s wild ride takes a detour
First of all I want to thank everyone who has made woodcreeper.com as successful as it has become; it is you who make up the 1000’s of daily visitors each spring and fall, and you who provide the feedback that let us all better understand what we’re seeing on the radar. What started in Spring […]
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Heavy migration into the Midwest; a good push up through the Northeast as well
National Overview No time to post right now, but wanted to get the word out that there was some moderate to heavy migration from the Central US all the way to the East Coast. Click on the individual radar thumbnails below for the animated loops. Below are the radar loops from sunset last night through […]
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Spring 2012 Early Wrapup
Here we are in late May and birds continue to push north to the breeding grounds while the earliest arrivals sit on eggs or even feed the recently hatched. We should still see migration on the NEXRAD radar network into early June, but expect things to slow down over the next week. On that note, […]
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Migration contines as front pushes east
National Overview I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: migration happens all the time, especially in spring. It’s worth taking a gander at the national composite from yesterday through this morning over at Paul Hurtado’s radar archive here. Looking at that you can really see how migration gets concentrated along the southerly wind […]
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Heavy migration into the Upper Midwest
National Overview The migration superhighway was open for business once again last night as the latest front pushed east across the Plains and Midwest. The heaviest migration was along the frontal boundary which swept across western Iowa and Minnesota by morning. Birders across the Midwest should be seeing new birds today. Below are the radar […]