See last night’s forecast for details. Here’s the radar from sunset last night through 5:00am this morning. There was extensive migration from the SW to NE last night, meaning that many new birds have entered the state. Migration peaked around midnight, and tapered off significantly around 2:00am when a front crossed the state from the NW –> SE. All the regular migrant traps will be good today.
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Frames are every 1/2 hour for reflectivity and velocity, and 1 hour for the regional composite
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5 responses to “Big migration over New Jersey”
Very windy up top at Garret. Probably better to be there later when the birds consolidate by the lake etc.
Pine
Palm
Y-Rump
B&W
Yellow
Hooded
BT Green
Ovenbird
Luigi-anna Waterthrush
BH Vireo
BG Gnatsmasher
Winter Wren
House Wren
Marsh Wren
Raven
RC Kinglet
Brown Trhasher
E. Towhee
Chipping
Swamp
Song
White-Throat
Junco
Green Heron
Red Tail Hawk
Turkey
Seems like WT Sparrows, Thrashers, Towhees and Chipping Sparrows were the main migrants pushing thru the park today. All of these were in high numbers at the top of the park at first light.
Most of the warblers were singletons, especially the new arrivals.
Hello all,
Jim Schlicks’ Garret post sounds right on the money. One addition was a cooperative Orange-crowned Warbler found about 1PM in the extreme NE portion of the park. There was a nice low raptor flight going on in the late PM as well.
Good Birding
Bruce McWhorter
Walking to and from school today revealed a few migrants: Hermit Thrush and Eastern Towhee in Milltown (both in backyards, I bet they came in last night), multiple Yellow-rumped Warblers, one nice Prairie Warbler.
Notables at woods behind Starkey Apts. at Cook College and Cook Campus:
Chipping Sparrows (10+)
1st OS Brown Thrasher
1st OS Pine Warler
1st OS Ruby Crowned Kinglets (4)
…also Carolina Chicadees nearly complete buiding nest in one of the nestboxes ,there are 10 Cook College nestbloxes this year and we hope for more occupants.
-Good Birding ,Stephen Bahr
It seems as though we got the previous day’s big influx of BG Gnatcatchers and rumps yesterday. I had large numbers of both + many ruby crowned kinglets along old mine rd. between milbrook village and van campen inn. There wasn’t as much movement as I thought there would be, but I didn’t get out to the evening. Also, it seems to me that the last several day’s worth of radar feeds are showing a consistent SW-NE trend, though I may be misinterpreting. FOS birds for me were eastern towhee (2) and northern parula (1). I suspect that as this front settles in things wont change much today (4/25) but so long as the rain holds off I’ll be out in the afternoon.