Category: Fall Migration 2009

  • Light southwest-bound migration

    The wind last night was out of the east, and migration was light to moderate across the region. Here’s the radar from 6:00pm last night through 6:00am this morning. Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation. You can read yesterday’s post for an idea of how things played […]

  • After more than a week of heavy flights, last night was on the light side

    Migration was light over the Northeast last night, with slightly more birds heading out of the mid-Atlantic than arriving from the north. Here’s the radar from 6:00pm last night through 6:00am this morning. Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation. Bird traffic over the mid-Atlantic was apparently influenced […]

  • Another big flight last night

    Last night the winds turned from NW (late last night) to NE (early this morning) and continued the trend of heavy migration over the northeastern and mid-Atlantic US. Here’s the radar from 6:00pm last night through 6:00am this morning. Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation. As you […]

  • The floodgates remain open!

    Alright! Now that was some pretty migration last night! Here’s the radar from 6:00pm last night through 6:00am this morning. Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation. First off, the national composite shows some heavy migration out of the northeast, especially from the SE shore of Lake Ontario. […]

  • More birds migrate into and out of the region

    The migration pattern last night was very similar to the night before, with birds moving WSW on NE winds. Here’s the radar from 6:00pm last night through 6:00am this morning. Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation. Given the similar pattern between the last two nights, you can […]

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