Some birds on the move last night with light westerly winds over our area. The big movement, though, was to our west where winds had already switched around to the northwest before sunset. Tonight’s forecast is for northwesterly winds, so I expect migration over our area to be heavier overnight. With the nortwesterlies today, the […]

Well, I’m not sure what the net effect will be, but there was a little push of birds last night, and we did get some thunderstorms moving into the area early this morning. The radar loop is from sunset last night through 5:30 this morning. It’s hard to tell from the radar what, if any, […]

Winds are calm and out of the east, yet there’s a steady stream of migrants moving south this evening. Not a huge number, but hey, if the rain brings them down late tonight and tomorrow morning, we could see some good birding at sunrise. It’s tough to tell just yet where the best areas will […]

Here are the radar and velocity from sunset last night through 5:15am this morning. This one is tricky though, because although there appears to be a lot going on, most of the signal is not bird migration. Use the velocity plot as a “filter” to determine how much of the radar is actually bird migration. […]

Birds are on the move- but they’re moving along the central and southern eastern flyways. From the Great Lakes to Mississippi and over to Florida, birds are high-tailing it south, but along the northeast coast they’re waiting until optimal conditions return to the area. The radar loop shows only a few images representing 4 hours […]