The entire eastern seaboard was alive with nocturnal migration last night. The Southeast was experiencing the birds that we saw erupt into our area after the big rains last week, and we experienced another big wave of migrants from our north. It looks as if some of the weather to our south backed up a […]

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 […]

Thanks to Dr. Robert DeCandido, a research associate scientist at the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, for offering this graph of his most recent data from his Empire State Building migration study. You can view a full-sized version of the graph by clicking on the thumbnail. I have highlighted the count corresponding to my radar post this […]

Bye Bye Birdie. Another big migration over the Garden State, with little input from the north. Expect lower overall densities of birds this morning, but with relatively high diversity due to the recent influx of sparrows. Winds are expected out of the Southwest today, so raptor migration will likely come to a halt. But don’t […]

A really nice movement of birds was obvious on the radar last night. Interestingly, at about 4am a front pushed over our area and shut it down. This should have caused some localized fallout conditions this morning, primarily along the middle ridges, but probably across the state as well. I’m on my way out the […]