Greetings again, sorry for the long absence, I was having some blog sign-in issues, but hopefully that has been all worked out. First an announcement- we are now taking pledges for our annual Birdathon! Every year in late May, the staff and few volunteers head out to find as many bird species as we can [...]
Scaup, Wigeon and Tundra Swans by Skye Haas This week saw the start of the Waterbird Count on the 15th, though it was quite the rainy mess of a day. This has actually been a bit of a theme this week with unfavorable weather conditions on several days. But there have been some [...]
Sandhill Crane by Skye Haas It has been a week of strong contrasts; either we have been shut out by harsh winter-like weather or it’s been beautiful spring days with classic Whitefish Point skies full of hawks! Waterbirds for the most part have not yet really got going- a modest push of COMMON [...]
Common Merganser by Skye Haas Greetings folks, here is this week’s sightings report. It has been another decent week at the Point; the first part of the week saw some decent hawk and songbird flights though blustery north winds have quelled migration here for a few days. Still the weather is setting up [...]
Greetings, here is the sightings report for the week of March 24-31. Spring has been chipping away at the edges of winter up here, and the snow, while still a few feet deep in some places is doing it’s best to melt. A new development here at WPBO is the introduction of electronic data collection [...]
Sharp-tailed Grouse by Skye Haas Greetings! This begins the weekly sightings summary of the observations at Whitefish Point. It’s safe to say that winter’s grip on Whitefish Point is still pretty solid. There are still a few to several feet of snow on the ground and the temperatures have been below freezing most [...]
Greetings from Whitefish Point! Pine Grosbeak by Skye Haas We are excited to be kicking off WPBO's 38th year of spring migration research! Of course, it doesn't feel too much like spring just yet with several feet of snow on the ground, lake ice as far as the eye can see, and temperatures [...]
Greetings! This is the Whitefish Point sightings summary for May 13-21st. It’s safe to say that the weather has not been our friend this month. Primarily north winds have continued until the 18th, and last weekend had some snow every day! Migration for most species has been slow, certainly slower that what should be expected [...]
Greetings! This is the weekly summary of Whitefish Point sightings for May 6-7th. Again (and again and again….) the winds haven’t been exactly favorable for migration, but the birds still continue to arrive. While the waterbirds and the hawks haven’t been exactly gangbusters, we all have been pleased by the return of neotropical migrants to [...]
Eurasian Tree Sparrow by Skye Haas While not completely unexpected, the manner in which Whitefish Point gained it's 8th record of Eurasian Tree Sparrow was a bit of a surprise. This afternoon when out at the waterbird count with Louie Dombroski, I heard an odd nasal chirping from overhead, and upon seeing the [...]