May 1st Field Trip Results!
Participants of this morning's Madison Audubon field trip at Pheasant Branch were thrilled to see a beautiful male Cerulean Warbler foraging low. We had 9 other warbler species this morning, including Blue-winged Warbler, Black-and-white Warbler, Tennessee Warbler, Nashville Warbler, Golden-winged Warbler (sang later), and both waterthrush species. Thanks to all who attended and helped make it a special day!
Here's a frame/screen capture last night's bird migration on NexRad:
Link: NexRad (radar) Ornithology Tutorial
Location: Pheasant Branch
Observation date: 5/1/08
Notes: Madison Audubon Field Trip
Number of species: 55
Wood Duck
Mallard
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Killdeer
Ring-billed Gull
Mourning Dove
Great Horned Owl
Barred Owl
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Least Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
Blue Jay
American Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Carolina Wren
House Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Veery
Gray-cheeked Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Blue-winged Warbler
Golden-winged Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Palm Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Northern Waterthrush
Louisiana Waterthrush
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Red-winged Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Baltimore Oriole
Purple Finch
House Finch
American Goldfinch
Cerulean Warbler © Robin Street-Morris
posted by Mike McDowell @ 11:08 AM
5 comments
5 Comments:
Hey, Mike - could you explain a little more about how you interpret the NexRad radars in order to spot bird migrations? I'm looking at the NexRad picture but it's all just blue dots to me.
Here's a great tutorial:
http://www.wsobirds.org/nexrad2.html
Mike
Hi Mike,
I was checking out the NEXRAD images last night too-- very awesome. It looks like page you noted above will be a help for folks to learn about this stuff. I ahve been following it for several years and it is so interesting.
Great movement through most of the eastern continent. See that lull in the northeast, over New York and Ontario? Yeah, that's where I am. We've been dutifully down at the bird research station every day since April 1, and we're still awaiting a noticeable influx of migrants. Have you felt abundance was down last fall/this spring? Our impression has been that last summer's northern-Ontario drought resulted in a poor breeding season (based on age ratios), and last fall and this spring we're getting record-lows as a result. But it's strange that virtually all of the rest of the continent seems to be unaffected.
birds have really started pushing through the area! Great list of birds that you found!
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