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Heavy migration tonight
Here’s the radar from 10:45pm tonight. I’m down in Florida right now, working on the Cape Sable seaside sparrow project, and I don’t have regular internet access. In lieu of posting the full radar, I’m letting you know that there is a MAJOR movement of birds over New Jersey right now. Birds are heading right […]
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Big migration last night
So my radar source seems to have “gone under” for awhile. I’m in the process of switching over to a better one, but now that I’m in South Florida for 2 weeks, it might not happen as quickly as I’d like. Anyway, this is the national composite image from midnight, last night. Migration was evident over most of the […]
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Radar Down
For whatever reason, the radar went down last night and all of my downloads were either the same image, or said something like “RADAR IS UNDER MAINTENANCE”. Oh well, at least they’re maintaining it. Migration was high to our south last night, with a good push into south Jersey up to the frontal line that […]
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Migration Forecast – birds up and down the east coast
Another big movement underway tonight. Birds are moving from the SW to NE, setting us up for a nice influx of birds overnight. We haven’t had great densities yet, as the last few evenings have been very conducive to migration without weather to put birds down in any particular place. The should remain the case […]
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Eastern flyway goin’ off!
Wow! The radar is ablaze tonight across the entire Eastern Flyway, most of the Mississippi Flyway and part of the Central Flyway. One could say that the floodgates are open after several weeks of poor to mediocre migration conditions. Even tonight though, winds on the surface are variable and winds aloft have a northerly component, begging […]