Category: Spring Migration 2012

  • Birds continue north to the beat of spring

    National Overview High pressure dominated the weather east of the Rockies yesterday, setting up another night of favorable winds and a relatively stable atmosphere. A band of moisture from Indiana to the Carolinas did pack a few storms last night, but as you can see from the national composite migration was evident across the entire […]

  • Nice flight into the Midwest

    National Overview The progression continues as southerly flow dominates from Mexico to the Great Lakes. Migration densities continue to be high across the south from Texas to Florida, but increased markedly in the Upper Midwest as more birds made their way north over the last few nights. I’m keeping it brief because, well, it’s LATE […]

  • More birds head our way

    National Overview Birds were moving again last night, this time primarily across the Southern US and parts of the Southern Mid-Atlantic. Florida, in particular, appeared to have the highest densities of migrants heading up into the Georgia and points north. A flight from Cuba was also evident suggesting that some Caribbean migrants are making their […]

  • Migration Light (and some advances in dealing with my dual-personality disorder)

    Good Morning! I’m trying something a little different today. So here’s the national composite for base reflectivity from last night at midnight, or ‘near-peak’ migration. As you can see, migration was evident across most of the landscape east of the Mississippi River, most of Texas, and into the Northeast as far as Northwestern New York. […]

  • A light flight into the Mid-Atlantic

    While things were really going gangbusters in the Central US, the East Coast was comparatively quiet. Still, some birds appeared to move last night over the Mid-Atlantic. Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation. The radar indicated a low-altitude flight across the Delmarva and New Jersey last night […]

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