Date: 5/2/26 10:10 am From: Doris Gertler via groups.io <dee.gertler...> Subject: Re: [ALbirds] liftoff satelllite images from 5 days ago
The radar images are very interesting. Thank you for posting!
Dee Gertler
On Fri, May 1, 2026 at 10:37 PM Yaukey, Peter via groups.io <pyaukey=
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> Birders:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Peter Yaukey
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