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More birds head our way
National Overview Birds were moving again last night, this time primarily across the Southern US and parts of the Southern Mid-Atlantic. Florida, in particular, appeared to have the highest densities of migrants heading up into the Georgia and points north. A flight from Cuba was also evident suggesting that some Caribbean migrants are making their […]
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Migration Light (and some advances in dealing with my dual-personality disorder)
Good Morning! I’m trying something a little different today. So here’s the national composite for base reflectivity from last night at midnight, or ‘near-peak’ migration. As you can see, migration was evident across most of the landscape east of the Mississippi River, most of Texas, and into the Northeast as far as Northwestern New York. […]
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A light flight into the Mid-Atlantic
While things were really going gangbusters in the Central US, the East Coast was comparatively quiet. Still, some birds appeared to move last night over the Mid-Atlantic. Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation. The radar indicated a low-altitude flight across the Delmarva and New Jersey last night […]
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Precip building over the Midwest and southwest flow for the Mid-Atlantic
I just returned from outside in Madison, WI, where I was met by a swarm of flying insects… don’t ask me what they were, but I can tell you one thing: they’re all prospective bird food! Spring is springing all around today. Southerly flow from the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes will mean migration […]
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Woodcreeper.com Spring 2012
Hello? Did somebody say migration? Well, if the three-week-early spring weather hasn’t yet broken your hibernation, nor the ever-increasing dawn chorus from half-hardies and winter residents yet rattled your ear bones; wake up and smell the zugunruhe! This $!&$’s about to go down! In case you hadn’t seen it yet, the Cornell Lab of O […]