Hawk migration at Whitefish Point

It’s always fun getting good looks at individual Broad-winged Hawks. Because as the morning passes they start getting higher and higher.

Before you know it they are passing high overhead.

Or sometimes they are in swirling kettles where it is all but impossible to count them.

At the same time there are eagles passing. This is a first year Bald Eagle.

Here’s a sub-adult Golden Eagle.

But if you’re really lucky a big Buteo with pointed winged passes overhead. This is a back-lit Swainson’s Hawk.

More migration tomorrow…