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Heavy migration into the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast
Last night marked the second consecutive night of significant nocturnal migration over the region. 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. First off, let me apologize for being absent over the weekend. I was camping in DE […]
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Heavy migration into the Mid-Atlantic
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. With southwest winds across most of the region from Texas to New York, birds again took to the sky in high densities. Migration was heaviest still in the south, […]
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Kicking off November with a bang!
Migration: it’s the gift that keeps on giving. Yesterday we saw the latest cold front push off the eastern seaboard causing the winds over new jersey to turn from southwest to northwest. I watched this unfold from the Cape May hawkwatch, where the raptor flight picked up considerably in the early afternoon (and Melissa Roach […]
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A changing of the guard
Birds were moving in and out of the region last night. While not as “mega” as Thursday night, migration was still quite heavy across New Jersey. In my opinion, the prospects for today are enhanced by the influx of birds from both southern New York State and the more coastal region that blanketed us with […]
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Moving to late-fall schedule
Thanks to everyone who contributed to the site this fall, both through your field observations and great feedback to my posts, and in your financial support to woodcreeper.com which helps greatly in keeping the lights on around here. If you feel this website provides you something valuable, you can always throw some change in the […]