Updated: 10/24/05 @ 7:44AM It looks like after the weather cleared, a few birds attempted to get out on the NW winds. The migration was small, but apparent. It’s probable that it was more obvious at coastal sites, where birds immediately turned around for shore as the sun rose just a couple of hours after […]

Updated Here’s the radar from sunset last night through 7:30am this morning. As you can see, there was some migration going on overhead as the front from the south backed up over our area and ultimately shut things down. These birds had to go somewhere! Below is my original post from last night, I think […]

The entire eastern seaboard was alive with nocturnal migration last night. The Southeast was experiencing the birds that we saw erupt into our area after the big rains last week, and we experienced another big wave of migrants from our north. It looks as if some of the weather to our south backed up a […]

Updated 10/21/05 @ 7:46AM Here’s the radar from yesterday that I couldn’t post since I was up on The Ridge. Thanks to Gary, Bruce, and Mike for keeping me in stitches as we watched the Sharpie Highway form over Raccoon. What an awesome day! As for the radar, yup, another October flight! Check out (on […]

Thanks to Dr. Robert DeCandido, a research associate scientist at the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, for offering this graph of his most recent data from his Empire State Building migration study. You can view a full-sized version of the graph by clicking on the thumbnail. I have highlighted the count corresponding to my radar post this […]