Re: [nysbirds-l] Kings County Cerulean, Yellow-throated Warbler + Radar/Wind discussion

2016-05-03 Thread Peter Reisfeld
I have also noticed that there have been a number of days this season in which there was good migration reported on the ground, but relatively low densities seen on radar. While the variation of wind direction at different altitudes may offer a path for birds to migrate on nights that the predo

Re: [nysbirds-l] Kings County Cerulean, Yellow-throated Warbler + Radar/Wind discussion

2016-05-02 Thread Dominic Garcia-Hall
Hi folks I also find this website very useful for wind - https://www.windyty.com You can change the altitude in various increments all the way up to 10,000m (good if you wanted to see bar-headed geese movement ;). The data visualisation is pretty cool, and you can scroll backwards in time which

Re: [nysbirds-l] Kings County Cerulean, Yellow-throated Warbler + Radar/Wind discussion

2016-05-02 Thread Cesar Castillo
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 | | | Last 24 hours' US radar | | |  César  Una tarde la princesa 

[nysbirds-l] Kings County Cerulean, Yellow-throated Warbler + Radar/Wind discussion

2016-05-02 Thread Sean Sime
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.