Category: NEXRAD Migration Study

  • Migration and weather

    Migration was evident on the Mt. Holly radar (KDIX) just after sunset and continues until about 4:00am. The Dover (KDOX) radar was quiet throughout the night, showing only a trickle of birds early in the night followed by precipitation. You can see by the composite image, migration to our north predominated, while to our south […]

  • Migration Forecast

    Wow. I totally had to rethink this post. Birds are migrating over New Jersey, but not into New Jersey from the south. The Virginia radar is quiet and the Dover radar is only showing minor migration. The Mt. Holly radar is showing the most migration, and these birds are heading right into the line of […]

  • Birds over New Jersey

    Well it wasn’t the mother load, but birds were definitely migrating from the south into and around New Jersey. The majority of migration last night took place over Virgina and points west of us, although birds are seen migrating from the Southwest to Northeast over the north end of Delaware Bay into SW New Jersey […]

  • Migration last night

    Some migration into New Jersey last night, mostly from West –> East over the Delaware River. Best spots likely Garret Mountain, Sandy Hook and points north. Unfortunately I can’t get the radar up until this afternoon- so please use the real-time radar site to get your data. Sorry for the inconvenience.

  • Let’s get ready to rumble…soon

    Tonight’s forecast is calling for southerly winds over Virginia and westerly winds over New Jersey, so we could see a push of birds both tonight and tomorrow night. I’ll post and update around 9pm this evening, and the radar tomorrow morning. In the meantime, I had two FOS birds in the woods today- Ruby-crowned Kinglet […]

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