On the heels of an unusually powerful cold front – with temps struggling to the 70s! today – the Noble Research Center claimed its first real fall migrant this morning, in a HY-U Mourning Warbler. This is the 7th Mourning Warbler on the project. This bird was young but it was in excellent shape and bulging with fat (scored a 3). (Apologies for the non-standard photography.)
Here’s last night’s flight on radar. Birds were on the move both ahead of and behind the storm.
Around 10:00 pm last night: Here’s the storm bearing down on us ~ 4:00 am:
Bird-Window Collisions at OK State 