Here’s a national composite from sunset last night through sunrise this morning. I’ve circled the area of migration in red. Updated: I’ve downloaded the fort Dix radar from the same time period and added it to the post. It now appears next to the national composite. Like I said previously, the whole eastern Flyway from […]

Birds are on the move! Although the upper-air winds (850mb) on the East Coast tonight are still strong out of the north, the mid-level to surface winds from Savannah, GA, to Wilmington, DE show a southerly component that appears to be stimulating some migration. Although it’s too soon to tell how extensive this event will […]

It looks like we may see some action in the first half of the week, as a new weather system pushes into the Northeast on Tuesday. Winds are forecast to switch around out of the south on Tuesday, and then the east overnight into Wednesday morning. This is expected to take place all down the […]

Rain and north winds last night- no birds appeared to be moving.

Another night of light winds out of the north, this time out of the northeast. The radar loop is from sunset last night through sunrise this morning, and the frame rate is 1 per hour. Although the images are pretty messy (some precipitation to our southeast and the instability in the atmosphere making it a […]