No Migration – Until Now?
Here is an image of last night’s radar taken a little before midnight with strong and heavy avian migration occurring across the Deep South and Gulf Coast. Very few birds made it into the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest, and there was no action in the Northeast. It was yet another night of poor bird movement for us, continuing a pattern and a theme that has persisted for a while this April. We have had lovely weather recently all thanks to northerly-based flows keeping air moving off the land being warmed by the sun as high pressures have been centered over the Great Lakes or Mid-Atlantic. We...
Read MoreBird Migration on Radar – March 31
Here is a radar grab of the eastern United States from just after midnight today with light bird migration occurring from the deep south all the way through Maine. A warm front had lifted through the Northeast while areas of heavy rain and thunderstorms associated with a soon to come cold front stretched across the Midwest. Areas near Georgia into the Carolinas and Delmarva appear to have had moderate migration occurring. At this time of the year we have everything from ducks to wintering friends like the Dark-eyed Junco to early arrivals like Pine Warbler, both kinglets, Chipping Sparrow,...
Read MoreSpring avian migration continues
Hard to believe we’re in what should be the last week of heavy avian migration in the northeast. It is ON again tonight with birds moving around the storms continually being triggered in Western New York by a warm front. We’ll be out surveying across the area tomorrow.
Read MoreMagnolia Warbler (Setophaga magnolia) by Scott Kruitbosch
The first night of heavy regional migration thanks to a warm front and ensuing southerly flow meant we were flooded with new arrivals like this Magnolia Warbler singing their hearts out early this morning. Our conservation staff was spread across New York and Pennsylvania today completing field work for birds, plants, reptiles, amphibians, insects and more. The first of many nonstop busy days this spring and summer was a gorgeous and successful one.
Read MoreRTPI in the snow by Scott Kruitbosch
I took this photo of RTPI in the snow last week – the snow that is now gone! After a December thaw thanks to a warm front that brought wave after wave of rainfall to the region the beginning of winter certainly did not look or feel like it. I hope the subsequent flooding and icing has not impacted you. Snow is here now again and more will be on the way soon as we drop the temperature back to more typical levels.
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