Sighting Report for Whitefish Point Apr 11-22, 2016
Here is the sightings report for the period of April 11-22. After all migration was completely halted due to winter-like conditions for the first half of April, a powerful warm front finally got birds [...]
Owl Update 4/22
Things have been going pretty well recently. As we mentioned in our first post, the first 11 nights in April were pretty brutal due to the return of winter conditions and we banded just two [...]
Crazy Crane flights
The first several days of the waterbird count coincided with the biggest Sandhill Crane flights ever recorded at Whitefish Point. After a plague of bad weather that lasted for over two weeks, the cranes took [...]
Start of the Waterbird Count!
April 15th marked the beginning of the Waterbird Count for the 2016 Spring Season. The first birds recorded at day-break were three hen Hooded Mergansers, a species actually not recorded that frequently on this count. [...]
Sharp-shinned Hawkapalooza
Hello everyone! Things have certainly picked up at the hawk deck. The last two days have been fantastic. Yesterday (April 15th), we counted over 1,000 raptors, with the vast majority (826) being Sharp-shinned Hawks. [...]
First wave of Sharp-shins
It was a good day on the hawk deck yesterday (4/14), though as it turned out, it was a merely a warm-up to the Ides of April where everything that happened on the 14th, happened [...]