23rd Sep, 2007

Big flight over Jersey

Sweet! The cold front that stretched over central New York and Pennsylvania last night made its way across the region through the early morning, and with it brought northwesterly winds and lots and lots of BIRDS!
Here’s the radar from sunset last night through 5:00am this morning.

Frames are every 1/2 hour for reflectivity and velocity, and every hour for the regional composite. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation.
Base Reflectivity image from Fort DixBase Velocity image from Fort DixBase Reflectivity image from Dover AFBBase Velocity image from Dover AFBComposite Base Reflectivity image from the Northeastern USA

The regional composite gives the best view of the events as they unfolded over night. Heavy migration was evident over the Northeast after sunset, showing a progression to the east as the night turned to morning. Both the reflectivity and the velocity images show heavy migration into New Jersey from the northwest, as well as down the state from north –> south. This will mean high densities along all coastal hot spots, including (and especially) Sandy Hook, Island Beach State Park, and Cape May.

Inland sites should also see new birds today and it would be interesting to know how inland sites compare to coastal ones given that coastal sites are usually favored in Fall on westerly winds…so if you’re out and about today, please come back and let us know how it went!

Good Birding

David

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Posted by: David La Puma

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Well it was pretty dead at Sandy Hook today with just a few birds seen here and there. Best bird we heard about was Philadelphia Vireo. We were there for about 3 hours. Don’t know where the birds went but definitely not on Sandy Hook today. Maybe
tomorrow who knows…..

By: wendy malmid on September 23rd, 2007
at 1:04 pm

Lots of birds counted from the dike at Higbees, totaling close to 1600 birds. Palms and Redstarts by the hundreds and almost 140 Northern Flickers flying about. Six Connecticut Warblers flew by, and a Lark Sparrow was the first bird to chime in. The first American Pipit flew over as well. 18 species of Warbler were seen this morning.

Good Birding,

SmG

By: Sam Galick on September 23rd, 2007
at 4:03 pm

Chimney Rock was not exactly hopping, but birds were on the move. Redstart, Parula, BT Blue, BT Green, Yellowthroat, Maggie, Chestnut Sided…BH and RE vireos…highlight was a yellow billed cuckoo

moderately strong raptor flight today with a good showing of kestrels (72) and sharpies (145).

-brian clough

By: Brian Clough on September 23rd, 2007
at 8:07 pm

Thanks for all of your posts!
It’s interesting how the coastal spots differ…I also heard that Manasquan was pretty dead too.

I birded a park in Brooklyn this morning for about 2 hours. Notables were several Magnolia Warblers, Black-and-whites, a single Nashville, Common Yellowthroats, Northern Parula, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, a few dozen White-throated Sparrows (seem to be building in numbers over the last couple of flights) two Swamp Sparrows, and a female Wood Duck.

By: David La Puma on September 23rd, 2007
at 10:08 pm

Was at the Hook Sunday as well. #’s of birds very low. We were able to eek out about 10 warbler species–highlighted by a single Bay-breasted. We also had a single Philly Vireo and flushed a Sora. A few White-throats and RC Kinglets about–and about half a dozen RB Nuts

By: Rob Fanning on September 24th, 2007
at 12:39 pm

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