Comments on: The floodgates are wide open http://www.woodcreeper.com/2010/05/01/the-floodgates-are-wide-open/ We're tracking bird migration over New Jersey using Doppler radar and a community of diehard birdwatchers Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:58:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Steve Glynn http://www.woodcreeper.com/2010/05/01/the-floodgates-are-wide-open/comment-page-1/#comment-39701 Steve Glynn Sat, 01 May 2010 23:58:12 +0000 http://www.woodcreeper.com/?p=1284#comment-39701 Been out along the Delaware Bayshore birding now for the past two days. Great diversity (100 + species) found both yesterday (Friday) and today. Will be heading out again tomorrow morning, hoping the migration continues. Big on our list of wants is Black-billed Cuckoo and the passing through of any types of Empids, which have been absent thus far. Steve Glynn Millville, NJ Been out along the Delaware Bayshore birding now for the past two days. Great diversity (100 + species) found both yesterday (Friday) and today.

Will be heading out again tomorrow morning, hoping the migration continues. Big on our list of wants is Black-billed Cuckoo and the passing through of any types of Empids, which have been absent thus far.

Steve Glynn
Millville, NJ

]]> By: Derek Lovitch http://www.woodcreeper.com/2010/05/01/the-floodgates-are-wide-open/comment-page-1/#comment-39700 Derek Lovitch Sat, 01 May 2010 17:18:42 +0000 http://www.woodcreeper.com/?p=1284#comment-39700 A light WNW flow continued here in Northern New England, keeping the floodgates only "ajar" for at least another night. However, early this morning we did see a distinct arrival of birds, but the flight seemed very localized. Comparing the morning's radar image with reports from the field yielded an unsually precise demarkation of a flight for Southern Maine, with the groundtruthing to prove it! Check it out: http://maineoutdoorjournal.mainetoday.com/blogentry.html?id=19144 Yes, this radar shenanigans really works! -Derek A light WNW flow continued here in Northern New England, keeping the floodgates only “ajar” for at least another night. However, early this morning we did see a distinct arrival of birds, but the flight seemed very localized.

Comparing the morning’s radar image with reports from the field yielded an unsually precise demarkation of a flight for Southern Maine, with the groundtruthing to prove it!

Check it out:
http://maineoutdoorjournal.mainetoday.com/blogentry.html?id=19144

Yes, this radar shenanigans really works!

-Derek

]]> By: Sandra Keller http://www.woodcreeper.com/2010/05/01/the-floodgates-are-wide-open/comment-page-1/#comment-39699 Sandra Keller Sat, 01 May 2010 16:37:07 +0000 http://www.woodcreeper.com/?p=1284#comment-39699 Maria Greenwald Park in Cherry Hill, Camden County, NJ. A local spot 5 minutes from my house. Here are some numbers from myself and the Audubon Wildlife Society trip there this morning. I didn't get there til 9:30AM. They started at 7:00AM. Now whether all this came in Friday or Sat. morning, or just moved here a bit from a Delaware River migrant area - who knows?? 1 SPOTTED SANDPIPER 1 RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD 2 GREAT CRESTED FLYCATCHERS 2 HERMIT THRUSHES - I heard many there Friday. GRAY CATBIRDS - many WARBLING VIREO - many. Can't count everything! 3 RED-EYED VIREOS 1 BLUE-WINGED WARBLER 2 NORTHERN PARULAS 3 YELLOW WARBLERS 1 MAGNOLIA WARBLER 20+ YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS 1 BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER 1 BLACKPOLL WARBLER 2 BLACK and WHITE WARBLERS 2 REDSTARTS COMMON YELLOWTHROATS - many 2 SCARLET TANAGERS 15 BALTIMORE ORIOLES - singing males. Maria Greenwald Park in Cherry Hill, Camden County, NJ. A local spot 5 minutes from my house. Here are some numbers from myself and the Audubon Wildlife Society trip there this morning. I didn’t get there til 9:30AM. They started at 7:00AM. Now whether all this came in Friday or Sat. morning, or just moved here a bit from a Delaware River migrant area – who knows??
1 SPOTTED SANDPIPER
1 RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD
2 GREAT CRESTED FLYCATCHERS
2 HERMIT THRUSHES – I heard many there Friday.
GRAY CATBIRDS – many
WARBLING VIREO – many. Can’t count everything!
3 RED-EYED VIREOS
1 BLUE-WINGED WARBLER
2 NORTHERN PARULAS
3 YELLOW WARBLERS
1 MAGNOLIA WARBLER
20+ YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS
1 BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER
1 BLACKPOLL WARBLER
2 BLACK and WHITE WARBLERS
2 REDSTARTS
COMMON YELLOWTHROATS – many
2 SCARLET TANAGERS
15 BALTIMORE ORIOLES – singing males.

]]> By: Corey Husic http://www.woodcreeper.com/2010/05/01/the-floodgates-are-wide-open/comment-page-1/#comment-39697 Corey Husic Sat, 01 May 2010 13:26:50 +0000 http://www.woodcreeper.com/?p=1284#comment-39697 Lots of birds this morning here in Kunkletown, PA. Some new ones have come in today: American Redstart Gray Catbird Wood Thrush Common Yellowthroat Ovenbird Worm-eating Warbler Scarlet Tanager Bobolink Northern Parula Black-throated Blue Warbler Blue-winged Warbler Also, huge numbers of Yellow-rumped Warblers have been flying over the yard all morning. Lots of birds this morning here in Kunkletown, PA. Some new ones have come in today:

American Redstart
Gray Catbird
Wood Thrush
Common Yellowthroat
Ovenbird
Worm-eating Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
Bobolink
Northern Parula
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Blue-winged Warbler

Also, huge numbers of Yellow-rumped Warblers have been flying over the yard all morning.

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