Conditions were favorable last night, with clear skies, and winds from the northwest (north Jersey and NY) and northeast (south Jersey and the Delmarva). Here’s the radar from 7:00pm last night through 5:00am this morning.
Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation.
Migration was heavy, and the velocity images suggest most movement was from the NE->SW. This should favor inland migrant traps, but Cape May will still have a good influx of birds since upper-level winds over north and central Jersey were northwesterly for most of the night. This most likely lead to a good number of birds being off the NJ coast this morning.
Good Birding
David
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Gloucester County today. Wheelabrator. Again a mid morning start. Hardly any sparrows today, but the habitat here is different than Palmyra. Not much in the way of a grassy, weedy area. But lots of open areas with scattered trees, open woods, a powerline cut, etc. Mainly
YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS – 250
PALMS – 30 or so. Both races, but a majority were “eastern”.
And both KINGLETS again.
BLACKPOLLS – 12. Wow.
1 CAPE MAY WARBLER was very nice.
1 BALTIMORE ORIOLE – late for me up in this area. But I usually have them off and on down in Cumberland and Cape May counties.
Birded Rutgers Ecological Preserve this morning:
Yellow-Rumps 70+
Common Yellowthroat 5
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 10
Field Sparrow 1
Cedar Waxwing 10
A Blue-headed Vireo flew into my bedroom last night!!! Fat score of 1.
Celery Farm Big Sit recorded 65+ species. incl. RE Vireo, Rusty BB, Wigeon, Coot, PB Grebe, Killdeer, Gr. Egret, etc. 7+ Pine Siskins were seen on the trail. Another birded did a separate Big Sit in another part of the refuge and recorded 66 sp w/ 6 warblers including Orange-crowned.