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Birds make a big push up the central flyway last night!
Pre-sunset South Texas received some trans-Gulf migrants late yesterday afternoon, while sunset triggered migration across the southeastern US and New England. The Mid Atlantic and PA suffered another night of high-pressure-induced-migrant-shutout-fatgue, causing Drew to jump ship for Ohio and Vince to simply shake his fist at the sky over Cape May and say, “why, now that I have all the time in the world, am I being robbed of spring migration!?”. Dawn, on the other hand, finally picked up some birds in North Cackalacky as low pressure moved north and east over the Barbecue States. The Central Flyway was where all the big action was, as it lit up like Christmas after sunset (if Christmas colors were blues and greens). Migration in the west was heaviest along the Pacific coast but was evident throughout the mountainous west along with scattered precipitation.
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Birds continue to push north across the U.S.
Low pressure over the Southeastern US did keep some birds from migrating in the area immediately affected by precipitation, but otherwise migration was widespread across the country last night. Heavy migration was evident in the Upper Midwest where birds have been backed up for weeks due to an unseasonably cold and snowy spring. Birds continued to pour up the Central Flyway via south Texas as the Gulf Coast enters the latter half of migration for the 2013 spring season.
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Birds. All we really want is Birds. In the morning it’s Birds…
…and in the evening it’s Birds… National overview Birds were migrating last night across the western half of the US; up through Texas, the Gulf Coast, and Florida, and on the leading edge of this wacky front from the Upper Midwest to New York and down to the Smoky Mountains. Again, the best way to […]
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Migration continues, although fragmented by high pressure and precipitation
When the map gets complicated with weather systems, it pays to check out the Hurtado Radar loop to understand what’s going on. Migration was evident across the country last night, although high pressure over New England and the Mid Atlantic kept birds down along the east coast, and heavy precipitation over Florida and along parts of the Central and Mississippi Flyways reduced migration locally. Some interesting weather over the Upper Midwest, as the once stationary front backed up as a warm front overnight, means more birds for southeastern Wisconsin today. See below for details.
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Central Flyway shutdown for the night, while MAYgration marches on all around us
A cold front stretched from the Yucatan to Canada brought heavy precipitation and opposing winds to the Central Flyway last night, effectively shutting down any major migration over the middle of the US, although some local movement was evident on the radar (see below). With the exception of some heavy precipitation over Florida and some high pressure cells over New England and the Great Plains regions, birds were on the move across the country. Check out the Hurtado Radar from 3pm yesterday through this morning to see for yourself.