[va-richmond-general] Re: Migration on Radar
- From: "Bob" <rcs5701@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:36:43 -0400
If you have never seen what the spring migration looks like in a radar
image, you should look it up. If you go to a radar station along the Gulf
Coast, you can see the birds moving out just after sunset. You can try the
link below, which shows a huge "bloom" of birds. Roll the time back to 6
pm, then run it forward to watch as all around the radar station there is
first black then green shaded reflections, it grows quickly and is huge.
You can tell its not a storm because it does not track with the wind and it
grows much too fast.
http://www.wunderground.com/radar/radblast.asp?zoommode=zoom&num=1&delay=15&;
scale=1.000&noclutter=0&ID=EVX&type=N0R&lat=0&lon=0&label=you&showstorms=0&m
ap.x=74&map.y=63¢erx=400¢ery=240&lightning=0&smooth0&showlabels=1&ra
insnow=0
If the link does not work, then just go to weatherunderground and find the
NEXRAD radar site. You can pick any radar station in the US and get images
from the last few hours. I even looked at one near D.C., and you could see
a bird signature, although much smaller than the Gulf Coast site.
You can do the same thing in the fall to watch the birds on the eastern
shore as they leave for the night heading south.
Bob Siegfried.
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