Owl Update 5-8-17
The spring's 300th Long-eared Owl! We'd like to start off by thanking all of this year's Spring Fling attendees for their interest & support! Thankfully the owls were cooperative over Spring Fling weekend [...]
Hawk Count Halfway Point Roundup
With a total of 6,585 counted by the end of April, Sharp-shinned Hawks are the most common species for the first half of hawk count. Chart generated at https://dunkadoo.org/project/wpbo-hawk-count May is here and [...]
Owl Update 4/26/17
An early Eastern Whip-poor-will on April 21. Photo by Chris Neri The current weather pattern has really slowed things down the last couple of nights, but prior to that the nights [...]
Waterbird count updates: Windy April 25, foggy April 26
Tuesday, April 25 started out with several reasonably close flocks of Greater Scaup flying past the tip of Whitefish Point. All but one of the five Lesser Scaup seen that day were nestled in these [...]
Incredible Migration at the Hawk Deck!
Action on the hawk deck has completely exploded in the past week! With the arrival of our first Ospreys on the 19th, Broad-wings on the 22nd, and the thrilling addition of Swainson's Hawk on the 24th, [...]
Waterbird Numbers Increasing
The waterbird count has been picking up steam over the last week with several new arrivals in just the last few days. Today (April 24) we saw the first Caspian Terns of the season and [...]