For those of us who can't stay up all night watching the radar there is this
one which shows the last 24 hours. Sometimes I take a look in the morning to
see how things went overnight.
Last 24 hours' US radar
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Last 24 hours' US radar
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César
Una tarde la princesa vio una estrella aparecer; la princesa era traviesa y
la quiso ir a coger.
La quería para hacerla decorar un prendedor, con un verso y una perla, una
pluma y una flor.
A princesas primorosas se parecen mucho a ti; cortan lirios, cortan rosas,
cortan astros. Son así.
-A Margarita Debayle (To Margarita Debayle) by Ruben Dario
On Monday, May 2, 2016 3:57 PM, Sean Sime <[email protected]> wrote:
I was fortunate enough to see the male Cerulean Warbler in Prospect Park this
morning and equally fortunate to be standing near Karen Ohearn when she said,
"I've got a Yellow-throated Warbler!" Both birds were near the southern
terminus of the Lullwater adjacent to the winter bird feeding station. A
checklist with ID quality photos can be seen here.
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S29356904
For those on the list that watch radar and wind maps, last night offered a true
'teachable moment." The surface winds were from the NE and SE overnight. There
was no visible lift off north of Virginia on radar maps as of 10:30pm and no
measurable drop out this morning at 5:30am.
I use this radar link:http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/northeast_loop.php
And this wind
map:http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/1000hPa/orthographic=-76.16,41.82,2048/loc=-73.010,40.993
Given what was visible (to me) I decided to not be out first thing. As tweets
from Prospect Park starting coming in it was clear birds moved last night. So
curiosity prompted some conversation. What Shane Blodgett was kind enough to
point out was on the wind map I use one can search by elevation. By clicking
the "earth" icon in the lower left corner of the wind map you can change the
height for the wind readings. I have more research to do, but by changing the
height to 850 (this is a pressure reading, but correlates with the altitudes
birds migrate at) I could immediately see the mid-level winds were from the SW
overnight and provided an explanation for the influx of birds in the park and
along the coast this morning.
If other list members have more/other sites they find useful in this regard
please share. The technology and information accessible at our fingertips is
exciting!
Good birding!
Sean SimeBrooklyn, NY
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