Friday’s longshore count at Indiana Dunes State Park had a little extra juice. What started as a usual spring morning turned into a surprisingly strong raptor flight along the lakefront, with 94 species tallied over 7 hours and 20 minutes, including a Golden Eagle and a long list of...
While it seems like we’re knee deep in April’s transition to neo-tropical madness, it’s worth taking a look at the last month, which is always a wild weather ride. Spring came in waves at the Indiana Dunes State Park Longshore Tower this March. Over 14 count days, observers tallied...
A nearly four day north wind finally flipped this week, and allowed for a few days of south winds before shutting the door again for the weekend. However, this set the stage this week at the tower for a couple of interesting days at the Longshore Tower. Fish Crows...
This weekend’s longshore flight count at Indiana Dunes showed one of the clearest signs yet that spring migration is starting to turn the corner. Even with rain hanging over nearly the entire count period, the morning produced 71 species, which is a strong show of diversity for early April...
March is rarely subtle at Indiana Dunes, and 2026 was no exception. It seems each year March is a month of boom or bust. Amazing, great conditions one day, only to flip to snow and north winds the next day. Despite the whiplash, we did run 15 offical counts,...
Yesterday morning at the Indiana Dunes observation tower the migration show leaned hard into spectacle. Flocks of Common Grackles poured past the tower in a steady, surging tide, many groups topping a thousand birds. By the end of the watch we recorded 59 species and 26,429 individuals, including a...
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