Month: September 2011

  • Finally some cooperative weather! (UPDATE)

    Blurry-eyed from walking the streets of Cape May listening to nocturnal flight calls and trying to get out the door this morning, here’s the radar from 7:30pm last night through 5:00am this morning. Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation. Things began to fall into place a night […]

  • Southerly blues are about to change… just not this morning

    The regional composite says it all. Here it is from 7:30pm last night through 5:00am this morning. Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation.       Strong southerly flow over the mid-Atlantic and Northeast pretty much shut down migration for the region last night. Birds were moving on the […]

  • Little over the mid-Atlantic

    Southerly flow dominated again last night (it only takes walking outside my house to know… the mosquito-meter is all but foolproof) which appears to have shut down any significant southbound migration. Here’s the radar from 7:30pm last night through 5:00am this morning. Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized […]

  • Oops, they did it again (UPDATED)

    More coastal migration last night! (and again I’m sick as a dog). Here is the radar from sunset last night through 5:00am this morning. Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation. Light winds mean that birds were heading on the ‘typical’ track- which is NNE->SSW down the east […]

  • Big coastal flight

    Sorry for the late post- I woke up feeling like death, which is unfortunate, because there was a pretty sizeable coastal flight last night from Maine down through the mid-Atlantic. Check out yesterday’s post for an idea of where to go birding today- it should remain very similar. I hope to get the radar up […]

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