Comments on: Watch Migration On Radar

By: Backyard Bird Paradise

Backyard Bird Paradise — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 16:44:30 +0000

I never thought of looking up a radar to track migration of birds. Very interesting, thank you…
The activity in our backyard here in Michigan around our bird feeders has been amazing the last week or two. I recently posted some great pictures and information about all the American Gold Finches we have visitinig right now. http://www.backyardbirdparadise.com/backyard_birding_blog/2012/9/Morning_With_The_Gold_Finches

By: Dawn Puliafico

Dawn Puliafico — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 13:04:49 +0000

That is so interesting! Thanks for sharing. I didn’t know they tracked migration by radar.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:33:19 +0000

I think I heard contact calls early this morning, about 5am. Now and spring are such a great time of year for getting an idea of all the activity going on overhead. As a computer geek, my goal is to put one of these babies on my roof someday, and record the activity and analyse it: http://oldbird.org/21c.htm (via http://oldbird.org/, which has daily flight call activity posted every morning). That won’t be happening until I finish this (after work) school activity which is taking up all my free time these days, though. Good news: I’m studying predictive analytics, so when I’m done I’ll be able to really dig into the patterns of migration (if there are any)…