Tuesday (3/10/26) morning’s longshore count at the Indiana Dunes Observation Tower started quietly, but the weather had other plans. The four hour watch began under clear skies with temperatures climbing from the upper 40s toward the low 60s and steady south winds around 10 to 15 mph. Around 9:15...
After a slow Friday warm-up, Monday arrived in full force, and then some. Our team tallied a staggering 22,952 birds during the morning count, with 50 species on the page. Conditions were near ideal, with gusty southwest winds, and temperatures that started in the upper 40s, but hit 71...
The Indiana Dunes Longshore Flight Count officially kicked off Season 15 this morning from the observation tower at Indiana Dunes State Park, marking another year of watching spring migration unfold along Lake Michigan’s shoreline. If migration were a reality show, the contestants wasted no time getting started. The morning...
Cupid apparently likes favorable tailwinds. With an unusual south wind on Valentine’s Day, one of our early counters trudged through late season lake-effect snow pack to host a three hour count from the Dunes SP Observation Tower. It was a tidy little preview of the season, and exactly the...
The past several days have been about as uneventful as migration gets. Southerly winds have dominated, which usually means the heavy movement of waterbirds slows down, and that has given us a chance to pause, count Canada Geese for a few days(!), and make sure we’re keeping our project...
While the first hints of fall migration are in the air, birdlife continues in all forms around the Indiana Dunes, some overhead, some underfoot, and some underwater. Just offshore from the longshore flight tower, about a half-mile into Lake Michigan, sits one of Indiana’s least visited natural preserves: the...
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