Migration Counts

It has been a busy week at Whitefish Point! Mid May is a very exciting time of year, as raptor flights can boil up into large kettles, passerine flights are large and diverse, and the chance for rare birds increases. We'll start with the raptors. "Peregrine Week" lived up to its name, with 19 [...]

There have been no Caracara sightings since last week, making for a much less exciting blog post this week. Spring marches ever on, but with a slightly different tone than before. Now, warbler song has begun to pepper in between bursts of Sharp-shinned Hawks, and Blue Jay flocks provide a dazzling backdrop against sunny [...]

April has come and gone, and May is here! While temps have barely reached a sweltering 50F, a few small patches of snow remain tucked in the shadows of the dunes. Overhead, migration rolls right along! The last few days of April only held a couple of meager Sharp-shinned Hawk and Broad-winged Hawk flights. [...]

This week has been the most exciting of the season thus far! One of the greatest tests of spring hawkwatching is the long wait for the explosion of raptor flight in late April. This year did not disappoint! We started the week off strong with a beautiful sunny day with light winds, which created [...]

Late April is always an exciting time at the Hawk Count, for this is the time that raptor diversity increases to the maximum and flights really build some steam. This week lived up to the call! We started off with a bang on the 14th with the first triple-digit Sharp-shinned Hawk flight of the [...]