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Another big flight last night
Another night of northerly winds had the birds up and moving last night. Winds started from the NNW after sunset, and have switched around to the N inland, and the NE on the coast. Here’s the radar from sunset last night through sunrise this morning. With the warm days and dropping temperatures at night, we […]
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Heavy migration last night!
See my post from 2:00am this morning for details. 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 for best birding locations, the velocity image did show […]
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Some video from last night/ this morning
Here are some video clips that I took tonight, of birds flying across the moon during migration. The birds are small, and they move quick, so it’s best if you click on the movie to open YouTube in a separate window (and therefore bigger). And here’s a photo of my setup: Okay- I’m off to […]
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Huge migration tonight
Birds are really on the move tonight. I just got in from a bit of moonwatching and saw several dozen birds stream across the moon’s face. I did a little digiscoping- so hopefully I’ll have some video to post soon. I’ll post the radar in the AM, but if you’re contemplating, GO BIRDING TOMORROW. Cape […]
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Riders on the storm
There was a bit of migration last night on the eve of the approaching cold front. Here’s the radar from sunset last night through sunrise this morning. You can see that a small amount of birds were moving just after sunset, and were later joined by a larger group as the front passed and the […]