This is the radar from 5:00pm last night to 5:30am this morning.
Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation.
Nature is Awesome,
Angel and Mariel
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This is the radar from 5:00pm last night to 5:30am this morning.
Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation.
Nature is Awesome,
Angel and Mariel
Posted in 2011 South Florida Radar Study, Badbirdz, birds | Tags: 2011 South Florida Radar, Badbirdz, birds, Key West radar, Miami radar, migration, nexrad, Radar, Radar Migration, radar ornithology
Epic couple days birding. Keep up the good work!
By: Rangel on October 18, 2011 @ 5:58 pm
at 5:58 pm
After a few frustrating days of excellent migration reports north and south of us, and an incredibly wet afternoon watching crazy birds like Bay-breasted and Blackburnian Warblers alongside Rose-breasted Grosbeak while getting drenched in a flooded parking lot, the rain finally seized. According to some reports, no less than 11″ of rain fell yesterday in the Middle Keys. Like a child on Christmas morning, I awoke before sunrise to look out the window as the last droplets dissipated. I drove out to Crane Point Hammock in Marathon to encounter the type of passerine event I’d only dared hope for. The very first tree I looked at – a large Gumbo Limbo – was just “covered” with warblers, primarily Tennessee, but there was absolutely no lack of Black-throated Blue, Redstarts and many other species! Here is a summary of what I saw:
Eastern Wood-Pewee (2)
Eastern Kingbird (4)
Scissor-tailed Flycather (3)
Red-eyed Vireo (few)
White-eyed Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo (5)
Veery (1)
Swainson’s Thrush (20)
Gray-cheecked Thrush (5)
Gray Catbird (20)
Northern Parula (5)
Tennessee Warbler (50+)
Chestnut-sided Warbler (1)
Magnolia Warbler (5)
Cape May Warbler (10)
Black-throated Blue Warbler (50+)
Blackburnian Warbler (1)
Black-throated Green Warbler (1)
Prairie Warbler (10)
Palm Warbler (100′s)
Bay-breasted Warbler (3)
Yellow-throated Warbler (1)
Worm-eating Warbler (1)
Black-and-white Warbler (5)
American Redstart (50+)
Ovenbird (50+)
Northern Waterthrush (5)
Louisiana Waterthrush (2)
Common Yellowthroat (50+)
Summer Tanager (1)
Rose-breasted Grosbeak (10)
Indigo Bunting (30)
Dickcissel (1)
Yellow-billed Cuckoo – countless – I was spooking them left and right as I walked through the hammock. On the drive back north towards the marine lab in the afternoon, I noticed about a dozen dead YBCU on the road, while a couple more dared cross my path in rushed flight.
The mangrove path through Crane Point was covered with Black-throated Blues, Redstarts, Ovenbirds and Yellowthroats on the ground – countless – daintily feeding on the flooded ground. The flats on the bay had a dozen Redstarts hopping and twirling over the tidal wrack, on a feeding frenzy for sand flees.
Unfortunately, I had to cut the birding short – I had a hawkwatch to attend. Let us hope tomorrow morning is a repeat – as of now (9:48pm) it is drizzling outside.
Read the Florida Keys Hawkwatch report at:http://floridakeyshawkwatch.wordpress.com/2011/10/18/falcon-flights-and-tons-of-passerines/
By: Rafael A. Gálvez on October 18, 2011 @ 10:06 pm
at 10:06 pm