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Break on through to the other side
High pressure continues to dominate the region, while light surface winds appear to have triggered some birds to get the heck out of Dodge last night, and head into the Mid-Atlantic. Here’s the radar from sunset last night through 5:30am this morning. Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized […]
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An eye on Wednesday night
While the birding throughout New Jersey has been good lately, we haven’t seen a big flight of nocturnal migrants arriving in the Garden State for a few nights. This has been due primarily to the strong Northwest flow over the region, and as the past has demonstrated, once this clears out we should see an […]
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NW winds keep birds down
So according to the radar, there was no flight over the Mid-Atlantic last night. Any changes on the landscape today would most likely be due to local movements as birds either redirect to somewhere they want to be (moving SE on NW winds) or head for better foraging habitat to refuel for their next leg. […]
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Bird blockage
Those two words pretty much summed it up for the Mid-Atlantic last night. A frontal boundary that moved in late last night, extending across the Delmarva and west across the middle of the country, created a barrier between some heavy migration over the Southeastern US and the Mid-Atlantic and northeastern US. This system is forecast […]
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Finally- some new birds!
I wish I had more time to comment- but I’m late for some morning birding! Here’s the radar from sunset last night through 6:30am this morning. Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation. Check out the trajectory across the radar (using the velocity loops), the intensity (using the […]