Memorial Day Finale
With almost 350 visitors to the Hawk Deck over the holiday weekend, the last few days of the season felt like one big parade with humans far outnumbering all the hawks I counted over [...]
Waterbird Count May 20-26: Signs of the End Times
May 22. Over the course of 8 hours, 655 Long-tailed Ducks (this spring’s peak flight, to date) rose, like apparitions, from The Gap. The Gap is terminology we use to point out waterbirds flying [...]
Owl Update 5/25/2022
Not surprisingly, the owl migration has been winding down in recent nights. For the first time since April 16, we did not band any Long-eared Owls on May 21. In fact, we did not [...]
The Home Stretch
With one week of the spring raptor count left, Mother Nature decided she wanted to remind me of those wonderful April days where fog engulfs the hawk deck while the north winds blow off [...]
WPBO Waterbird Count May 13-19 2022
Spring migration has this accompanying urgency: many of the shorebirds and waterfowl that pass WPBO’s waterbird count are headed to arctic tundra. Up there, the days are long — but the season is short: the [...]
Owl Update 5/18/2022
Although it appears that the Long-eared Owl migration has begun to slow down, we had another productive week. We banded another 118 owls over the last seven nights; 78 Northern Saw-whet Owls, 36 Long-eared [...]