There are a variety of people that do not imagine that summer time will ever finish.
However the birds know that fall is right here.
Final night time, the climate radar confirmed an explosion of radar returns over land round sundown. Many birds favor to fly after sunset—safer that means.
Here’s a composite of a number of radar websites at 7:30 PM final night time (Tuesday) earlier than the solar set. Not a lot to see.
And right here is the picture at 10 PM. Wow…a lot of birds. You discover they do not wish to fly offshore!
Fashionable Doppler radars present wind velocity (truly the speed of targets like precipitation) in direction of or away from the radar. However final night time there was no precipitation however loads of birds. And radar actually picks up birds…they seem like big raindrops.
Right here is the speed in direction of or away from the Langley Hill radar close to Hoquiam. Inexperienced signifies approaching birds and yellow/orange birds shifting away. These birds are shifting south!
There’s a superb web site that exhibits chook migration based mostly on radar imagery: Birdcast.information.
Their graph for 11 PM final night time exhibits the southward migration over our area. However there was much more birds flying south throughout the jap U.S.
Thankfully, I’ve some excellent news for migrating birds: by Friday at 4 PM, the area needs to be just about smoke-free based on the NOAA HRRR smoke mannequin (see under). So each people and birds will be capable of take a deep breath….
