Birds are moving over New Jersey tonight, as light south winds provide favorable conditions. Here’s a look at the radar, from 6:00pm to 11:15 this evening. Click on the thumbnail to open the larger animation. Frames are in 15 minute intervals.
For more information on the Spring 2005 migration study, see this page.
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Morning Update:
Here’s the radar loop from 11:45pm last night, through sunrise this morning (frames at 30 minute intervals, sorry for any confusion):
In the absence of any weather forcing birds to land, migration continued unabated throughout the night until sunrise when birds drop out of the radar’s view.
I saw an interesting movement of Flickers (50+) in the early morning of March 31. These birds were flying along the shore at Reed’s Beach and continuing north along the bayshore. I frequently see this in late-Sept/early-Oct as birds will fly up the bayshore after deciding not to cross the bay at Cape May, but this was the first time I’ve noted such a flight in the spring.
Tom- that’s a really cool sighting! It’s neat to see groups of single species like that. After a big spring fallout on the Dry Tortugas there were about 250 Yellow-billed Cuckoos, in flocks of 25 – 50, moving together around the fort. It was pretty wild to spook a flock as you unknowingly walked under a tree they were in. Thanks for the sighting post.