The Chelan Ridge crew returned from their three day lightning storm hiatus this past weekend to an excellent Sunday filled with many birds and a wonderful group of visitors. The Wildlife Techniques class from Washington State University joined us on the ridge Saturday afternoon and enjoyed an evening around the…

Counting started slow at Bonney Butte, but starting to pick up now as the peak passage comes. Here's a photo of long-time volunteer Dan Sherman taking a Red-tailed Hawk out of the bow net.

Count update from Bonney Butte field crew: Here is a photo of the updated count board as of yesterday. It has been pretty slow lately and we were weathered out most of Thursday and all of Friday. We have been pretty busy trying to weed out migrants from residents.

The pacific storm that was blasting Bonney Butte and Chelan the later part of last week made its way to Commissary over the weekend.

Update from Goshutes field crew: The early migration at Goshute has offered a classic mix of falcons and accipiters, with plenty of adult Red Tails and Swainson's thrown in. The weather has been incredibly consistent with beautiful but slower mornings leading to the inevitable afternoon thunderstorms. The passing weather cells…

Field crew Jade and Andrew holiday a Prairie Falcon caught on Monday before being released.

A pacific system has been hammering the northwest coast yesterday and today. Here is a picture by Jade of the system rolling in over Mt. Hood.

HWI citizen science volunteer and supporter Tom Jones took a recent trip up to Goshutes and shared this panoramic landscape shot.

Chelan had a few lightening strikes on Friday. Happy to report the field crew is all safe.

Thanks to Ian Dolly, Interpreter for the Manzano Mountains, NM migration site, for sharing these photos of the field crew from the past few days.