Ted and other interested parties,
I ran the HYSPLIT model (page to runyour own HYSPLIT) on your Sept 29, 2008
date to see what the 6-hr backward trajectories would look like to get to your
patch by 6AM. The corresponding plots are here:
Ted,
I'm glad that I'm not the only one who noticed the unusual phrase "first
migration". From a birding and banding perspective here in southeastern
Michigan, warblers and flycatchers (and some vireos) have been going strong for
more than three weeks, and thrushes have been trickling through
Hi, all.
Thanks for the report.
What fascinates me, from my Interior West perspective, is the phrase
"first migration of the season possible tonight."
Basically, we're done, finished, outta here, night-flight-wise, here in
central Colorado. We had our biggest flights of the "fall" season a
Tom Johnson sent out a text at ~5:30am this morning stating that he was
hearing many bobolink and thrush flight calls as both were dropping in
around Columbia St. in Cape May. Chase Scheifer posted on Facebook this
morning that he was hearing "hundreds of SWTH flight calls overhead". The
Dover, DE
My email didn't go through, so if anyone is willing to listen to the
10 sec sound file, I can email it to them.
Also, it should be here: http://soundcloud.com/user3781125/sept9-555am-thrushes#
And apologizes, but for some reason, Raven Lite and/or my old computer
only recorded the left channel.
Just checked again and there are huge numbers of thrushes but they are
fairly faint. Still lots of insect noise.
On 9/8/11, Andrew Albright wrote:
> Well it seems like it's been since spring since there was any night
> flight. The surface and lower level winds seem to be out of the
>
Hi all,
I'm in White Plains, NY and have been listening/recording for the past few
hours. Not much going on flight call-wise, perhaps two or three calls total!
Benjamin Van Doren
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 11:25 PM, David La Puma wrote:
> Andrew et al.:
>
> oh, It's DEFINITELY ON:
>
Andrew et al.:
oh, It's DEFINITELY ON:
http://weather.rap.ucar.edu/radar/nids/images/N0R/KUSA/20110909_030900.png
heavy migration out of the NE US tonight almost exclusively on NE winds and
heading SW as a result (not good for Cape May- but good for inland migrant
traps). I don't hear anything
