Midway
Piping Plover with spread wings. Photo by Alec Olivier It's hard to believe, but we're almost halfway through the 2022 Piping Plover season. There isn't much new to report since my last [...]
Short-Lived Record
Of,bL:X,B/O/B “Little bill Bob.” Photo by Alec Olivier The last week of plover monitoring has been an interesting one. I was fortunate enough to find an egg in a scrape of a [...]
Plover Season Begins
Really Tricky. Photo by Alec Olivier Greetings Piping Plover lovers! This summer's Piping Plover field season has started very successfully! As it stands, we are currently at four active Piping Plover nests! This [...]
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 [...]