Category: Spring Migration 2010

  • Birds at the doorstep… but still a night away

    It’s Wednesday night and the atmosphere over New Jersey is pretty devoid of avian life. I’m heading out quite early tomorrow, so will not be posting the radar, but I will post an updated forecast tomorrow evening. Right now the probability is high for a heavy flight into the region on Thursday night, arriving on […]

  • The Storm Before the Birds

    Well, the rain got here a little “too” early… here’s the radar from sunset last night through 5:00am this morning. Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation. I could tell last night, when I was driving home from work, that the weather was moving a bit ahead of […]

  • The Calm Before the Storm

    More birds are on their way, but the persistent northwest winds were just enough to hold them at bay to our south. Here’s the radar from sunset last night through 5:00am this morning. Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation. Again, the most telling part of this series […]

  • All’s Quiet on the Eastern Front

    Indeed, it’s true. Northwest winds have kept things quiet for the last two nights over the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. Here’s the regional composite from sunset last night through 6:00am this morning. Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation. Not much to say about the radar last night, at […]

  • Weekend Wrapup

    Wow- what a crazy busy weekend! Radar outages, getting into scouting for next weekend’s World Series of Birding, Mother’s Day… my head is spinning!  Here are the regional composites for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights. Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation. As you can see from the […]

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