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Today’s birds and tomorrow’s forecast
First off, birds are on the move again tonight. I’ll post the radar by 7am tomorrow morning. Today on the ‘back 40’ the migration was evident. Conspicuously absent were tanagers and orioles…weird. From 7:30 – 9:30am Magnolia Warbler (5, all adult females) Common Yellowthroat (many) Prairie Warbler (1 adult female) Ovenbird (1) Blue-winged Warbler (1 […]
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More Bird over Jerze
With another night of NW winds, we see another movement of birds over the Northeast. As is to be expected, last night’s migration was a little lighter than the night before (although still intense!), which I believe is due primarily to the ‘source’ of ‘ready’ migrants to our north having been depleted (a good number […]
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Big Migration over New Jersey
Here’s the entire base reflectivity loop from sunset last night through sunrise this morning. Notice the movement of green toward to coast and then south along it…I wonder how Higbees was this morning!
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Birds on the move
And off they go! A high volume migration is underway this evening with some pretty good upper level winds out of the NW. The base reflectivity and velocity loops are from sunset through 10:30pm tonight. Migration will likely continue unabated until sunrise, setting up the coastal and ridge hotspots for the best concentrations of birds. […]
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Migration behind the front
Well look what happened right under my nose! I got all tied up this morning and took yesterday’s weather forecast over what was going on right outside my door. As soon as I stepped out I knew the cooler airmass had reached us last night…darnit! So, a migration event did occur last night, and it […]