Category: Migration Radar

  • Migrants just making it into New Jersey

    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.   To explain what you see on the radar last night, you have to consider the strong Low pressure system churning south of the Great Lakes and the associated warm […]

  • Big flight into the Mid-Atlantic

    Things are really heating up now as we push into the latter half of April. Southerly flow across most of the country triggered heavy migration from Mexico to New Jersey. Locally, the southerly flow allowed for a moderate to heavy flight of birds into the Garden State and as far north as central New York. […]

  • New birds move into New Jersey

    The latest cold front strewn across northern New Jersey last night resulted in strong SW winds across most of the region south of the frontal boundary. After sunset the radars from Washington DC, Virginia, and the Delmarva Peninsula indicated moderate to heavy migration heading this way. Here’s the radar from sunset last night through 5:00am […]

  • It’s beginning to feel a lot like April!

    Did you hear anything go bump in the night? Wow! Those were some serious thunderstorms that came charging across the Mid-Atlantic! Not much in the way of migration, but that’s all about to change. Here’s the radar from sunset yesterday through 5:00am this morning. Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view […]

  • Nocturnal migration from Texas to Tarrytown

    Sorry so late in posting. 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.   Southerly flow across most of the US east of the Rockies triggered migration across the Central Mississippi and Eastern Flyways last night. Migration was […]

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