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Bird migration
Posted on April 19th, 2010 2 comments Add a comment >>I know this is a bit out of our “Adirondack range” but I wanted to show you how bird migration looks from a weather radar station in Key West, Florida. And the fascinating part about this is that these birds are flying at night(it’s safer). This radar is showing movement from around 8PM to 10PM Monday eve.
Watch as the birds(that bluish blob moving north off of Key West) work their way toward the mainland of southern Florida.
Now to relate this to our neck-of-the-woods….these birds should be in the Adirondacks sometime around mid May:-)
We wish them a safe journey.
2 responses to “Bird migration”
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Pat Jones April 21st, 2010 at 21:43
Hi Brian> Pictures of spring flowers are beautiful. I can’t however figure out how to access the migration radar. Ijust heard of a presentation on the same topic explaining why the migration has been so poor here on L.I. Apparantly the radar showed the birds leaving down south but moving to the west to avoid a front which has been hanging around the east coast. They have been getting birds in Rochester which we have been missing. I was hoping I would see something like that on your radar posr.
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Bio: Brian McAllister can often be found investigating the natural world of the Adirondacks with a hand lens or binoculars. He has worked throughout the Adirondack Park for organizations such as the Adirondack Nature Conservancy, Wildlife Conservation Society, Adirondack Mountain Club, Ecology and Environment Inc, and the Adirondack Park Agency’s Visitor Interpretive Center at Paul Smiths. A strong passion for teaching has lead Brian to several teaching positions in environmental education, but his most prized position so far has been at Paul Smith’s College, where he teaches ornithology laboratories and leads field trips in the spring. He also blogs about birding for Adirondack Almanack (www.adirondackalmanack.com).
Brian April 22nd, 2010 at 20:02