While there was a little movement of birds into Florida last night, most of the state was under southerly flow coupled with thunderstorms. This made for some lame migration conditions, which will hopefully cause some of the good birds found over the last couple of days to stick around for awhile. Here’s the radar from 7:00pm last night through 5:00am this morning.
Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation.
Hmm… I think I said everything in the opening paragraph… Check the composite image; only migration is in the northern sector of the state. Check the local reflectivity; heavy thunderstorms present, nothing evident that looks like birds. Check the local velocity; everything is moving S->N. Go birding. Yes, go birding! You don’t think Trey found ALL the birds yesterday, do you?
Good Birding,
David
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Good fallout in the Keys this weekend. Between Saturday night and Sunday morning I saw the following birds at Fort Zachary Taylor State Park in Key West. And I wasn’t even trying very hard.
Brown Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Magnificent Frigatebird
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Yellow-crowned Night Heron
White Ibis
Turkey Vulture
Osey
Swallow-tailed Kite
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper’s Hawk
American Kestrel
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Laughing Gull
Royal Tern
Rock Dove
Eurasian Collared Dove
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Nighthawk (sp)
Chuck-wills Widow
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Eastern Pewee
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Barn Swallow
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
White-eyed Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Northern Parula
Magnolia Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
airie Warbler
Palm Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
othonotory Warbler
Worm-eating Warbler
Swainsons Warbler
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler
Wilsons Warbler
Summer Tanager
Scarlet Tanager
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Blue Grosbeak
Red-winged Blackbird
Mark Hedden
Bone Island Bird Expeditions
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By: Mark Hedden on October 5, 2008 @ 9:08 pm
at 9:08 pm
Some residue at Cape Florida today. 51 birds banded, with SWTH, BAWW and BTBW making up the majority. A male GWWA was seen but not mistnetted. Some birds from the day before managed to slip out last night despite the rainfall, as we caught no GCTH but had 3 yesterday out of only 18 birds banded due to the persistent rain. Yesterday (Oct 4) would’ve been good at Cape Florida if we had been able to keep the nets open. Interesting stuff around: all the thrushes, plus WEVI and REVI, and God knows what warblers.
By: Michelle Davis on October 6, 2008 @ 8:25 am
at 8:25 am