Interpreting birds and other biological targets on NEXRAD radar is not that
simple to describe in words, but once you know what to look for, it is easy
to recognize and fascinating to follow. Here's a link that has lots of
information on birds etc. and radar:
http://virtual.clemson.edu/groups/
Can we see migrating birds on weather radar? I see lots of CNY clutter
that isn't fog -- I always suspect birds during migration periods.
I'm sure some one of you out there has a quick lesson in the use of
weather radar to track migration. A short lesson for us all, please?
Thanks.
Eben McL
...Route 13 and disappeared to the east over the trees and out of the lake
valley.
(Sorry again about the hair-trigger "send" feature on this device I'm using.)
--Dave Nutter
Ithaca, NY
On Aug 22, 2011, at 9:28 PM, Dave Nutter wrote:
> This evening (Monday 22 August) the egrets are, like last n
This evening (Monday 22 August) the egrets are, like last night, sleeping
separately. I walked through the dusk to have a brief look (8:35-8:40pm). Yet
this morning as I scoped from East Shore Park they appeared nearly
simultaneously out from behind Jetty Woods at 6:18am and immediately flew, v
Received the following which may be helpful to birders in the future:
John
Dear gull enthusiasts,
I am a researcher at Acadia University working with Dr. Phil Taylor on a new
project studying the movements and migrations of gulls from Sable Island,
Nova Scotia. In June 2011 we banded Herring G
For the second year in a row we have not lost any hatched baby birds in the
nest boxes with ¼ inch wire mesh
4 inches above the bottom. Before using
the wire mesh we lost many baby birds to blow flies each year. This year
17 bluebirds, 20 tree swallows and 8 chickadees fledged.
For those wh
RBA
* New York
* Syracuse
* August 22, 2011
* NYSY 22:08.11
Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert
Dates(s):
August 15, 2010 - August 22, 2011
to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.com
covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge
and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC
