Month: August 2006

  • Big migration over the Garden State

    Woohoo! Here’s the radar from sunset last night through 5am this morning. The whole Northeastern US experienced high nocturnal migration last night, from Caribou, ME down to Cape May, NJ. Because of thunderstorms over the Delmarva peninsula, there was a noticeable break along the eastern seaboard south of New Jersey (the remnants of Tropical Storm […]

  • Here we go!!!

    The biggest night of migration so far this spring is currently underway in the Northeast. The kicker is that south of New Jersey there’s a whole lot of unstable atmosphere with some heavy thunderstorms. This will likely result in great birding down in Cape May tomorrow, but given the density of birds leaving points north […]

  • “It’s the rain, man, always keepin’ us down!”

    Looks like the rain in the earlier part of the night may have kept migration to a minimum. Winds were not very cooperative either. Even though winds were out of the NE on the surface, they continued out of the west at higher, more typical migration altitudes. Some birds are seen taking off just after […]

  • Vacuum or Birdblower?

    Last night was interesting, to say the least. Surface winds were out of the SW early in the night, switching around to the East by morning. The upper level winds, however, were from the West – Northwest, which likely influenced the migration we see in the radar. Birds are seen taking off after sunset and […]

  • Some forecasting resources

    Sandra Keller, Jerseybirder extraordinaire, recently posted a message to the Jerseybirds listserve about her preferred online weather tools. I thought I’d share one of mine. First off, I use the NOAA 7-day forecast for Somerset, NJ (you can enter your own zipcode to get the local forecast) I then click on the hourly weather graph […]

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