Fall 2018 Banding
Hello all: We are finally getting our blog access up and running here at the Point and thought we would give you all an update on our season so far. I'm not gonna lie, this [...]
Sightings update 10/8/18
Highlights: Summer Tanager & Lark Sparrow (photo above) I don't know how I let so much time pass by, but I did and there's nothing to do for it now except to jump right in. A [...]
Waterbird Count Halfway Point!
The season is just past halfway through, the weather has certainly changed, and with it so has the diversity of migrants being seen on the WPBO waterbird count. Perhaps the biggest constant this season has [...]
Autumn Arrivals
Autumn has officially begun, and with the days now shorter than nights, an increasing diversity of waterbirds are headed to their wintering grounds. Though the number of dabbling ducks is dwindling, a bump in divers [...]
Big days of waterbird migration
Despite a strong headwind both days, thousands of waterbirds migrated past Whitefish Point on Tuesday and Wednesday! Following several slow days of warm weather and southerly winds, I wasn’t expecting to see much migration on [...]
Sandpipers and More Grebes
For me, the highlight of the past few days has been the shorebirds! I’ve always particularly enjoyed watching them scramble along a beach or a breakwall, even before I began to seriously tackle the notoriously [...]