Category: NEXRAD Migration Study

  • Birds on the move

    Birds were on the move last night, with winds out of the west after sunset, switching around to the northwest around midnight. In the first image of the radar loop you can see the back edge of the cold front that passed over us yesterday. This is the same cold front that sparked a massive […]

  • No Migration Detected

    none, zilch, nunca. Winds were out of the southwest. No birdies in the sky. Actually, that’s not entirely true. There were lots of birds moving down the central flyway, behind a cold front that is moving our way. Stay tuned tonight!

  • More migration, less insight

    Last night the winds never got cranking out of the northeast. Instead they remained light and variable, but light and variable combined with a clear night sky was enough to get the birds moving. Unfortunately when you have a clear, warm day (like yesterday) followed by a clear, cool night where the air temp cools […]

  • Migration last night

    Some birds on the move last night with light westerly winds over our area. The big movement, though, was to our west where winds had already switched around to the northwest before sunset. Tonight’s forecast is for northwesterly winds, so I expect migration over our area to be heavier overnight. With the nortwesterlies today, the […]

  • Birds and Weather

    Well, I’m not sure what the net effect will be, but there was a little push of birds last night, and we did get some thunderstorms moving into the area early this morning. The radar loop is from sunset last night through 5:30 this morning. It’s hard to tell from the radar what, if any, […]

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