Date: 03/15/2019

Number: 20

Last night and this morning I saw the radar at Binghamton NY light up with the bird migration pattern. Binghamton is 90 miles to the southwest of me. I could hear what I believe was a lot of geese flying overhead at midnight. I do occasionally hear birds flying overhead late at night, especially killdeer. There are a lot of sights and news outlets talking about how weather radar picks up bird migrations. Here is one of them. https://www.audubon.org/news/how-use-radar-track-birds
This was happening ahead of the storm front moving in. Albany was showing activity along the Taconics.

I got up this morning and there were blackbirds everywhere. I did a survey of rural Dolgeville (Town of Manheim) and found multiple flocks along Murphy Rd. In fact there are robins everywhere. I just can't pull off in front of peoples homes and point cameras every time I see a silhouette. They are not singing yet and the village of Dolgeville has deeply entrenched snow. These are sun exposed farm fields, so they are not an accurate depiction on just how deep the snow is in the village.

Town of Manheim, NY

Latitude: 43.1 Longitude: -74.8

Observed by: Matthew
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