Where are the birds? According to Bearskin’s Haikubox, an AI device that records and analyzes bird sounds, there are 131 species of birds that live around the resort in various seasons. But you wouldn’t know it by the sounds recorded lately. Chickadees, woodpeckers, some robins — there’s always bird activity on the box, but there certainly is a lot less action right now.
Here’s why — look at this map of bird migration!
It’s a radar-generated map of bird migration. Watch how different it is between night and day. Most land birds migrate at night, which you can easily see by switching times on this map. The stars and the moon aid night-flying birds’ navigation, plus there is less thermal activity in the atmosphere at night — it’s calmer for their travel. Watch this in the coming weeks, as millions of birds fly north. https://birdcast.info/migration-tools/live-migration-maps/
If you use the arrows on the lower left, you can view the history, and you will observe a very distinct difference between night and day migration activity. You can also see migration slow down if it is very windy or if there’s a significant weather event. For example, the migration stopped during the nights of recent tornadoes. Watching the map regularly can get to be a bit of an obsession, so bookmark the link and follow the birds as they fly north.