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Oops, they did it again (UPDATED)
More coastal migration last night! (and again I’m sick as a dog). Here is 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. Light winds mean that birds were heading on the ‘typical’ track- which is NNE->SSW down the east […]
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Big coastal flight
Sorry for the late post- I woke up feeling like death, which is unfortunate, because there was a pretty sizeable coastal flight last night from Maine down through the mid-Atlantic. Check out yesterday’s post for an idea of where to go birding today- it should remain very similar. I hope to get the radar up […]
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You can’t keep a good bird down
As night fell over the region, you could almost hear the sound: thousands of migration-ready birds tapping the faces of their little wristwatches and looking at the sky. “I can see a few stars”, “Dude, it has been ALMOST A WEEK that we’ve been stuck here”, and in the words of the late Paul Pena: […]
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Mid-Atlantic avoidance continues
With the exception of a few early morning arrivals, the conditions over the mid-Atlantic continued to thwart any significant migration over the mid-Atlantic. Here’s the radar from 7:30pm last night through 5:30am this morning. Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation. Southwest flow and heavy precipitation dominated the […]
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Migration? Where?
West of here, that’s where. Here’s the radar from 7:30pm last night through 5:00am this morning. Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation. Most of the time I post the radar so that you’ll watch each loop and get a better idea of the relative densities moving overhead, […]