Birds are on the move tonight all up and down the eastern seaboard- which is great, because it means diversity is on the way. Over New Jersey though migration appears to be minimal, as the easterly winds are blowing everything west, and the front that was predicted to move into our area tonight is looking […]

Birds were migrating over Jersey last night, with a peak around midnight and a quick tapering off by 2:00am. Incoming migration was heaviest along the western half of the state, although some birds were evidently entering over the bay and into the southeast. If you’re trying to decide where to go, Garret Mt. and Sandy […]

Birds are on the move over Jersey tonight. I’ll post the radar in the AM but you can use the real-time radar link on the right-hand side of the site in the meantime. Good Birding David

Just a small “blip” of birds moving over New Jersey last night. I’m not quite sure what the deal was, but judging by the Northeast composite image, it looks like precipitation was to blame. Storms moving across from the southeast seem to have kept migration to a minimum, even given the favorable southerly winds. Only […]

I guess I can’t blame them, it was the weather that caused it. A high density of birds were seen migrating last night but they came into New Jersey from the southwest, almost entirely avoiding the Cape May peninsula (including our ornithology class- in Belleplain State Forest). I’ll post more on our trip later- once […]