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 [...]
Sightings Update 11/1/21
Snow Bunting by Chris Neri Passerine migration activity at this time of year really comes down to the winter finches. Thankfully, we’ve had some nice finch flights this week. We documented some significant [...]
Week 11 of the Fall 2021 Waterbird Count
Waterbird Highlights: This week (Oct. 22–28), we had 26 species of waterbirds, with our highlight being gulls; BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE, Lesser Black-backed Gull, and an Iceland Gull (kumlieni). The kittiwake made a flyby appearance while the [...]
Owl Banding Update: October 20–26
A Barred Owl banded in the fall of 2018 at WPBO. Well, this week's weather consisted of long cold nights of wet and windy weather, and we only banded one Barred Owl. [...]