Updated Ben and I had the pleasure of assisting Bill Elrick this morning at his banding station in West Milford. I’m not sure how much help we were, given our lack of sleep and overall clumsiness, but we sure had a great time! Ben actually made a passing comment about a Townsend’s Warbler which we […]

Last night saw a noticeable but less eventful movement of birds than the past few nights. This is consistent with what we usually see during migration; where during consecutive days of movement numbers peak in the first couple of nights, and then taper off as the number of birds fit to migrate decreases over time. […]

Another night of migration under light NE winds. The loops are from sunset last night through 6:30am this morning. Birds are seen lifting off after sunset and continuing in a NE –> SW direction into the early morning. With no weather present to concentrate birds, the best locations will likely be those tried and true […]

Last night marks the third successive night of heavy migration. Yippee! Here are the radar loops from sunset last night through sunrise this morning. It looks like the wind switched around to the NE over the course of last night, and the trajectory of birds migrating appears to follow along. I suspect Higbees will not […]