Owl Banding

A Northern Saw-whet Owl peering out of its hut. If you have been to the owl banding on a busy night, you may have seen us placing Saw-whets or Boreals into one of the huts that we place them in to await their turn for banding. Every once in a while one will [...]

A Northern Saw-whet Owl peering out of its hut. If you have been to the owl banding on a busy night, you may have seen us placing Saw-whets or Boreals into one of the huts that we place them in to await their turn for banding. Every once in a while one will [...]

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 and many attendees were able to see some of the Long-eareds and Northern Saw-whets we banded that weekend. The nights [...]

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 had continued to be productive. Since our last post we have banded 179 owls and recaptured four more previously banded [...]

First Boreal Owl of the season. We mentioned in our last post that the forecast at the time contained both conditions that would keep us from being able to open the nets and conditions that looked very good for migration. The forecast proved true on both counts. Heavy rain on the 9th washed [...]

Long-eared Owl We published our last post halfway through the night of March 31. The owls had been slow for a few nights and had continued to be slow up to that point in the night. We had no reason to believe that would change during the remainder of the night, but it [...]

The first Barred Owl of the season. It's hard to believe, but in less than an hour it will be April. While it still does not feel like spring in the woods at night, winter has definitely begun to loosen its grip at the Point and the owls have become a bit steadier. [...]

The owl season ended for us here at Whitefish Point on the night of October 30th. Although, I am sure there will be more owls moving through the area, which is pretty frustrating considering on the night of October 29th we ended up catching 4 Boreal owls! That brings the Boreal owl season total up [...]

We had a better stretch of weather the last few nights which led to some better nights of netting. The last two nights treated us to some calm north winds.  We even had a chance to see the stars for the first time in a long time it seemed. The last two nights we were [...]