North Branch, Endless Mountains and the Poconos Duck Migration Forecast

Where North Branch, Endless Mountains and the Poconos is

North Branch, Endless Mountains and the Poconos is drawn from 11 counties in Pennsylvania: Bradford, Carbon, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Monroe, Pike, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Tioga, Wayne and Wyoming. Those are the counties its shape on the DuckCast map is built from, so a hunter in any of them reads this region’s score.

When North Branch, Endless Mountains and the Poconos peaks

DuckCast’s season model puts the wood duck peak here around mid October. The timing follows the statewide curve; what differs here is how many birds the model expects, below. That is a modelled typical curve, not a prediction for any single year. The actual push depends on cold fronts and freeze-up upstream, which is what the daily score tracks. Always confirm season dates with the state wildlife agency, linked below.

Which birds the model expects in North Branch, Endless Mountains and the Poconos

In DuckCast’s season model, the species that can score highest in North Branch, Endless Mountains and the Poconos are wood ducks, Canada geese and mallards. Against the state as a whole, it expects fewer snow geese, gadwall, pintails, wigeon, green-winged teal, blue-winged teal, mallards, Canada geese and black ducks in North Branch, Endless Mountains and the Poconos.

Those weights come from harvest records, survey counts and the kind of water, not from a count taken here each season. They cap how high each species’ score can climb; the weather still has to bring the birds.

What DuckCast watches upstream of North Branch, Endless Mountains and the Poconos

5 upstream stations feed this region's freeze line, nearest first: Binghamton, NY, about 40 miles north, Montezuma NWR, NY, about 110 miles north, Albany, NY, about 140 miles northeast, Cape Vincent, NY, about 180 miles north and Plattsburgh, NY, about 255 miles northeast. When those stations ice over, the score here starts climbing before anything changes in the local sky.

Radar over North Branch, Endless Mountains and the Poconos

Each morning DuckCast reads the night’s NEXRAD data from KBGM, the National Weather Service radar at Binghamton, about 50 miles north of the region’s weather point. That puts the radar just outside the region, near enough to see birds lifting off and passing close by. Radar sees every bird in the air, not only ducks, so it confirms or questions the score rather than moving it.

Locations stay generalized

Hunter reports for North Branch, Endless Mountains and the Poconos are always shown at the region level. DuckCast never collects or displays exact coordinates, so filing a report here never burns a spot.