Date: 5/1/26 8:37 pm From: Yaukey, Peter via groups.io <pyaukey...> Subject: [ALbirds] liftoff satelllite images from 5 days ago
Birders:
A friend from New Orleans alerted me that she experienced a nice fallout at Dauphin Island last Sunday, and I finally got around to pulling up the liftoff imagery of those birds leaving that evening. From rap.ucar.edu.
The green echo in the images below is the birds departing the coastal zone (or offshore islands), at 825 pm and then an hour later- notice the northward progress.
There was rain in the area earlier, which presumably induced the fallout. As is often the case with rain-induced fallouts, the rain had abated by nightfall and southerly winds were present, which stimulated the birds to leave immediately rather than spending the night.
As for tonight, if there is any fallout along the AL coast from this front (haven't heard reports), the headwinds and rain would normally keep the birds here overnight (or longer). No liftoff was evident on tonight's radar, although all the rain in the radar field might make such a thing hard to detect.
