March Madness
Many people visiting the hawk deck ask, "How do you keep count of the raptors flying by?" These days, my answer is, "On one hand." Alright, I may have had one day where I [...]
Owl Update 3/22/2022
The owl banding season has started relatively slowly, but a significant weather system pushing up from the south produced the first little push of the season over the last two nights. To date, we [...]
What Will Season 3 Bring?
Greetings and salutations from Whitefish Point! The Hermit of the Hawk Shack, your Friendly Neighborhood Raptor Counter, known to many as Rich Couse but mostly as "that guy who stands out in the cold [...]
Final Week of the Fall Waterbird Count
Waterbird Highlights: The final days of the waterbird count (Nov. 5–15) were extremely favorable weather and bird-wise. We were surprised with several goodies, such as another immature Black-legged Kittiwake, several distant Snow/Ross's Geese, an immature [...]
Sightings Update 11/8/21
Highlights: Sprague's Pipit & Townsend's Solitaire A hatch year Northern Goshawk. Photo by Chris Neri A Sprague’s Pipit found by Fall Waterbird Counter Mario Balitbit is very likely to be the rarest bird of the [...]
Week 12 of the Fall Waterbird Count
Waterbird Highlights: This week (Oct. 29–Nov. 4), we had species of waterbirds, with our highlight being RED PHALAROPE and a few more BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE. The Red Phalarope showed briefly in the morning before being lost between the [...]