[cayugabirds-l] radar bird migration, Buffalo NY

[Dave Nutter]

It's now 8:30pm.  There's an even more convincing radar view from Buffalo NY:

http://www.wunderground.com/radar/radblast.asp?zoommode=pan&prevzoom=zoom&num=6&frame=0&delay=15&scale=1.000&noclutter=0&ID=BUF&type=N0R&showstorms=0&lat=0&lon=0&label=you&map.x=400&map.y=240&scale=1.000&centerx=400&centery=240&showlabels=1&rainsnow=0&lightning=0&lerror=20&num_stns_min=2&num_stns_max=9999&avg_off=9999&smooth=0

You can watch the birds vacate the south shore of Lake Ontario and also
watch the migrants head south over Lake Ontario and Lake Erie from the
north shores.  BTW the forecast there is north winds 7mph, 30% cloud,
less than 15% chance of precipitation.  This ain't rain.

--Dave Nutter

On Sep 19, 2010, at 05:00 PM, Dave Nutter <nutter.d...@me.com> wrote:

It's a little before 8pm.  I was checking the predicted weather and noticed
light northwest winds, and no precipitation overnight.  Good night for
migration I thought.  I checked the radar:

http://www.wunderground.com/radar/radblast.asp?zoommode=pan&prevzoom=zoom&num=6&frame=0&delay=15&scale=1.000&noclutter=0&ID=BGM&type=N0R&showstorms=0&lat=4215665817&lon=-75.89051819&label=Binghamton,%20NY&map.x=400&map.y=240&scale=1.000&centerx=400&centery=240&showlabels=1&rainsnow=0&lightning=0&lerror=20&num_stns_min=2&num_stns_max=9999&avg_off=9999&smooth=0

and noticed green around Binghamton, the radar source.  When I animated
the map, the green started right at the radar source and radiated.  I suspect
this indicates birds throughout the region taking flight and rising into the the
radar beams, which are higher the farther they are from the source.

--Dave Nutter