woodcreeper

19th Oct, 2005

Movement to our north

Updated 10/21/05 @ 7:46AM
Here’s the radar from yesterday that I couldn’t post since I was up on The Ridge. Thanks to Gary, Bruce, and Mike for keeping me in stitches as we watched the Sharpie Highway form over Raccoon. What an awesome day! As for the radar, yup, another October flight! Check out (on the velocity) how the movement switches from southwest to northeast…pretty cool!

Original Posting:
Good migration out of New York tonight (as seen on the Binghamton, NY radar). I’m heading up to Raccoon Ridge in the early AM, so I won’t be posting the radar until Friday. Check the real-time site for your morning fix. Although there’s no weather to bring birds down, we should see some influx in the morning due to the movement up north.

Good Birding!

Posted by: David La Puma

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I had a black throated green in my Middlesex County neighborhood, a first.
DUe to migration I imagine.

By: dotsy on October 20th, 2005
at 11:28 am

Hello,

Migration over Manhattan from 6:30pm until 11:45pm was slow on Thursday night into Friday morning. Winds from the WNW were light at 1050 feet - about 2-7mph. The evening’s first migrant was at exactly 7pm (about 53 minutes after sunset; when the first migrant appears less than an hour after sunset, we tend to see high numbers of migrants). In the first hour we counted 30 migrants (plus what appeared to be a Red Bat). In the next hour we had 30 migrants, and then the flight trailed off completely (total was 103 for the night). The next morning I was in Central Park early and there were many, many birds: mostlly kiglets (both sppp common); Hermit Thrushes, WThroat. Sparrows, Song Sparrows and Juncos. At about 9:15am, a flock of Brown-headed Cowbirds (circa 20) flying south overhead, just dropped out of the sky and landed in the park near me.
My analysis of Thursday night’s flight was that either the birds arrived over Manhattan after midnight; and/or with the light westerly winds birds did not remain east of the Hudson River. Why the radar indicated a large migration flight in the northeast, yet I saw so few from the ESB until midnight is a mystery.

By: Robert DeCandido on October 22nd, 2005
at 9:43 am