Month: September 2011

  • You can’t keep a good bird down

    As night fell over the region, you could almost hear the sound: thousands of migration-ready birds tapping the faces of their little wristwatches and looking at the sky. “I can see a few stars”, “Dude, it has been ALMOST A WEEK that we’ve been stuck here”, and in the words of the late Paul Pena: […]

  • Mid-Atlantic avoidance continues

    With the exception of a few early morning arrivals, the conditions over the mid-Atlantic continued to thwart any significant migration over the mid-Atlantic. Here’s the radar from 7:30pm last night through 5:30am this morning. Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation. Southwest flow and heavy precipitation dominated the […]

  • Migration? Where?

    West of here, that’s where. 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. Most of the time I post the radar so that you’ll watch each loop and get a better idea of the relative densities moving overhead, […]

  • No detectable migration on the radar

    for the Northeastern US and mid-Atlantic. See you tomorrow!

  • Birds over NY and PA

    Light WSW winds over NY State and Pennsylvania last night couldn’t stop the migration-ready birds from heading south. Along the coast, though, migration was much quieter. 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. Upper-level winds over central […]

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