Welcome to May: 3rd Week of the Waterbird Count
At this latitude, May is a high-octane month. Night starts later, day begins sooner, and I think we all flounder a bit as we try to keep up with all we want to see. [...]
Loggerhead Shrike: a Fourth Record for WPBO
On April 29 and 30, a Loggerhead Shrike (LOSH) was seen at Whitefish Point. The sighting, once accepted, will be the fourth record of a LOSH at WPBO. A Loggerhead Shrike seen on [...]
Woodcocks, Kinglets, and How a Bad Finch Year For Us is a Good One for the Birds – 04/25/19 to 05/01/19
Highlights: American Woodcock Display - Pine Siskin Flock - Eastern Towhee - Vesper Sparrow - Kinglets Galore - White-Winged Scoter - Flocks of Common Loon Peent… Peent… Peent... I cannot begin to tell you [...]
Ice Out, Birds In: Waterbird Count Week 2
Eight hours most days, I stand on Whitefish Point’s cobbled beach. There, from whichever side of the waterbird shack is the lee side du jour, I make sweeping scans with binoculars and spotting scope. To [...]
Owl Update 4/29/19
Despite the fact that our nightly efforts continue to be regularly interrupted by high winds and/or mixed precipitation, things have picked up a bit since our last update. Aside from a couple of nights when [...]
Birding In the Rain and Other Stories (and Birds) from the Point: 04/12/19 to 04/24/19
Highlights: Too many to name! Or: Leucistic Red-Tailed Hawk – Spruce Grouse – Increasing Sparrow Diversity – Pine Warbler – Kinglets – Brown Creeper – Pine Siskin - Broad-Winged Hawk – Snowy Owl – [...]