[cayugabirds-l] Radar: migration + rain = fallout?

I see, as I get ready for work well before dawn, that the radar shows both migration, and in parts of the region, light rain which can cause migrants to quit migrating when they hit it. Maybe there will be some migrant fall out. - - Dave Nutter -- Cayugabirds-L List Info:

Re: [cayugabirds-l] radar/migration

No doubt, migration is beginning. go to https://radar.weather.gov/ridge/Conus/northeast_loop.php during the evening after sunset and you can see the birds taking off tonight. Northwest winds and chilly air, birds are moving!! On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 5:17 PM, Eben McLane

Re: [cayugabirds-l] radar/migration

If it's during the day in the summertime I think it's probably insects. This site seems to have a good intro: http://www.woodcreeper.com/radar-migration-faq/ For a bunch of links and archives: http://www.pauljhurtado.com/US_Composite_Radar/ Suan On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 5:17 PM, Eben

[cayugabirds-l] radar/migration

I don’t have a sophisticated knowledge of Dopler radar images/patterns, but it seems to me from poking around NOAA radar just now that there are familiar signatures of bird migration in the midwest and the south. Are more experienced people on this list picking up signs of migration? Seems a

[cayugabirds-l] radar migration now (before dawn)

It's now about 5 am, and the radar weather http://www.wunderground.com/radar/radblast.asp?ID=BGMregion=a5lat=42.15665817lon=-75.89051819label=Binghamton%2c%20NYshows heavy migration, a blossom of even green around the radar station indicating a layer of birds up to a certain altitude. As dawn