More birds made it into New Jersey last night, as the cold front pressed eastward setting up a strong southerly flow over the coast. Here’s the radar from sunset last night through 5:30am 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.
Heavy migration was apparent across the state overnight and into the early morning. While we did experience some thunderstorm activity last night, the radar indicates that birds continued to migrate (and in Central Jersey appear to have increased) after its passage. Birding conditions should be very good to great this morning, with diversity kicking up a notch in the south, and high densities of migrants at coastal locations and inland migrant traps. It might be a little wet out there this morning, but it’ll be well worth dragging out the rain gear!
Good Birding
David
P.S. I’ve updated the Mid-Atlantic migration forecast for the rest of the weekend, so come check it out at Birdcapemay.org
4 responses to “Heavy migration into the Garden State”
migration was heavy at Duke Farms for our April bird tour. Not much diversity, but good numbers of expected migrants..
many Pine Warblers
Palms
Rumps
Towhees
Gnatcatchers- 3
Thrashers- 2
Red Wing Blackbirds- pretty big push actually
migrant Meadowlarks
Savannahs, more Chippings
Salem County and the Mannington Marsh area is not a huge migrant spot, but we had lots of birds and a good variety of species. Some HOUSE WRENS came in. COMMON YELLOWTHROATS, GNATCATCHERS, etc. When do CATTLE EGRET migrate? Day I presume. But 2 were in. Etc.
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