Date: 5/5/26 5:43 am
From: Cynthia Freeman via groups.io <Cynthiafreeman633...>
Subject: Re: [ALbirds] Last night liftoff image and next front
Thanks for your update! It is much appreciated.

Cynthia


Cynthia L Freeman

On Mon, May 4, 2026 at 2:23 PM Yaukey, Peter via groups.io <pyaukey=
<uhcno.edu...> wrote:

> There was a nice liftoff image from the AL and MS coasts last night,
> visible on the Mobile radar (when viewed unfiltered at rap.ucar.edu),
> posted below. Bye bye, migrants. On such evenings when coastal fallout
> birds lift off and continue northward, it can often be fun farther inland
> to listen to the airspace for call notes, shortly after dark. In New
> Orleans such events often produce peaks with >1 call note per second, even
> in the (sub)urban noisy airspace, usually for a fairly short window around
> 9pm as the birds proceeding from the coast pass over in the darkness. I
> presume that one could predict the time to step outside and listen at one's
> own inland location with at least fair accuracy, by figuring about 30
> minutes after sunset, per 20 miles inland.
>
> But don't fret those migrants' departure, the next front is upon us,
> scheduled for Thursday, with rain and an afternoon wind shift to drop any
> migrants arriving trans-Gulf.
>
> Peter Y
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