Waterbird Count Week 6 Update (5/16-5/22)
It's been an exciting week at the Point, with many of our later migrants starting to hit hard and many of our irregular migrants starting to show up. Our second wave of Canada Geese [...]
Owl Update 5-22-2024
It was another week of productive nights. We banded 92 more owls: 81 Northern Saw-whet Owls, 10 Long-eared Owls, and one Barred Owl. We're happy that the Long-eared Owls have yet to stop migrating entirely [...]
Raptor Count Week 10 Update (5.14–5.20)
The tip of Whitefish Point was enveloped in heavy fog for most of May 17 and 18. The morning of May 17 was bright and sunny, and a large kettle of Broad-winged Hawks began [...]
Piping Plover Week 1 Update
The Great Lakes Piping Plovers are starting to return to Whitefish Point. The first three days of my surveying painted the picture of a bachelor’s paradise. X,-:O,- aka Lover Boy. Photo by Stephanie [...]
Waterbird Count Week 5 Update (5/9-5/15)
Prevailing north winds have kept this past week fairly slow, with little changing in terms of species diversity. The numbers of White-winged Scoters and Long-tailed Ducks are slowly increasing, with the number of loons [...]
Owl Update 5/15/2024
It has been an interesting and reasonably productive week. In last week’s owl update, we expressed our hope that the late May push of Northern Saw-whet Owls (NSWO) that we often experience would occur [...]