Another solid night of migration – green doughnut solid.
New arrivals being reported: Nashville Warbler, Pacific Slope Flycatcher, House Wrenm Northern rough-winged Swallow, and Black-throated Gray Warbler.
Well it’s on!
Many reports of FOY returns. Wilson’s Warbler, Swainson Hawk, Cassins Vireo, and Black-headed Grosbeak to name a few.
But the highlight today is the radar loop — which speaks for itself.
The National Composite Radar shows the effects of weather systems. Note the Pacific Flyway – it’s rocking!
Widespread with heavy patches of movement last night. Some weather came in from the south late in the cycle.
New arrivals are being reported along the Pacific Flyway. In the metro area: Black-throated Gray Warbler, all Swallows except Bank, more Osprey, Western Tanager and Common Yellowthroat.
South: Western Kingbird, and Wilson’s Warblers are on their way.
PNW: Still pretty light migration with a couple of pockets along the coast in northern Tillamook and southern Clatsop counties.
Purple Martins are being reported along the southern coast,
National: some weather shut down the Atlantic Flyway but the Mississippi and Central Flyways were very active.
PNW: Low level movement except in some patches like the flight out of Nisqually.
National: A band of weather and north winds behind it kept migration restricted to Texas and the Atlantic Flyway. Nice movement in the Pacific Flyway
Bullock’s Orioles are now in San Diego. Lot’s mor Rufus Hummingbird reports.
Most action was along the coast again last night.
Widespread but low density migration last night. With the one exception being along coastal Lincoln County. Not sure what that’s about, but it starts around 747 UTC.
National composite shows solid migration in the southern portions of the Central and Pacific Flyway
Add Osprey to the list of arrivals.
In today’s loop we see significant movement (>20 dBZ) coming out of the NWR’s: Finley, Basket Slough and Ridgefield. Surely ducks and geese re-positioning.
Early March: Turkey Vultures, Rufus Hummingbirds, singing Ruby-crowned Kinglets and the Swainson’s Hawks are staging in Borego Springs.
So, i’m walking into work this morning (4:00 AM) and i hear a call note. I stop and listen for a while and sure enough, there are Swainson Thrush moving through. I’ll have to check my records, but this seems a bit early to me.
So, i checked out the radar, and yes, migration is on. Not heavy, but there is movement afoot. I’ve seen reports of shorebird movement, but i really don’t follow the listservs this time of year, just graze them, mainly for authors.
Base Reflectivity – RTX
Admin Note: WordPress has changed it’s interface and it may take me some time to figure it out. I prefer the gallery view for the looped radar .gifs but i haven’t figured that out yet. Oh well, at least it is displayed – i think.
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