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More birds
No time to post the radar today (sorry!) but migration was hot and heavy again. The main trajectory was NE->SW which means that the inland hotspots will be, well, hot! Raccoon Ridge, Chimney Rock, Cold Brook Preserve, the NP Dredge Spoils, all of them should see new birds on Tuesday morning. Cape May will see […]
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Kicking off November with a bang!
Migration: it’s the gift that keeps on giving. Yesterday we saw the latest cold front push off the eastern seaboard causing the winds over new jersey to turn from southwest to northwest. I watched this unfold from the Cape May hawkwatch, where the raptor flight picked up considerably in the early afternoon (and Melissa Roach […]
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A changing of the guard
Birds were moving in and out of the region last night. While not as “mega” as Thursday night, migration was still quite heavy across New Jersey. In my opinion, the prospects for today are enhanced by the influx of birds from both southern New York State and the more coastal region that blanketed us with […]
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Wings on the wind: The flight of a decade
“The flight of the lifetime!” came across my phone last night as I sat in a dark spot between the Cape May Convention Center and the adjacent building, gazed upwards, and marveled at 300 birds passing overhead… …in a single minute. Whether it was really the flight of a lifetime or simply one of the […]
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The floodgates are open over the Northeast
Migration is hot and heavy right now over coastal New England and New Jersey. Winds over most of New York State are too strong and out of the west for a big flight, so those birds will have to wait until tomorrow night. In the meantime, we should see a flood of late October birds […]