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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 […]
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Feathered treats fly down the coast…
…although the radar cannot resolve whether broomsticks were involved. Here’s the radar from sunset last night though 5:00am this morning. Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation. Since the last of the cold front had cleared the region by yesterday morning, migration over the mid-Atlantic has been set […]
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Tricks before treats as something wicked that way goes
Not quite a Halloween blizzard, the big low pressure system that dumped rain and snow across the region is now spinning its way off of the US coast to the northeast. For those locales which were outside of its clutches by late last night we saw some migration activity as birds took advantage of the […]
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Brrrrrrrrrrr
As I sit here pouring over the radar, I’m left to wonder: “Why the heck isn’t my heat working!??” Oh well. Here’s 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. The strengthening low pressure system to our south is […]
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Riders on the storm
I absolutely love that Doors song, which probably explains why this blog post title has been recycled four times since 2007. Anyway, if you were in the Northeast or mid-Atlantic last night then you probably heard (and/or felt) the latest cold front roar across the region as it headed east into the Atlantic Ocean. With […]