Category: Birds

  • 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, […]

  • No flight into the Mid-Atlantic last night

    Click here for the national composite at 12-midnight last night. You can see that the low pressure system over the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic pretty much precluded any significant flight into either region, while the south was still going gangbusters. Tonight we should see that all change, as southwest winds build in across the region and […]

  • 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 […]

  • Migrants just making it into New Jersey

    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.   To explain what you see on the radar last night, you have to consider the strong Low pressure system churning south of the Great Lakes and the associated warm […]

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