GLOBAL BIG DAY 2026
And what a big day it was! Thirty-three birders stomped around Marquette, Alger, Iron, Baraga, Houghton, and Bay County searching out the best of the 2026 spring migration, adding our totals to the eBird Global Big Day event.
First Annual LWBA Global Big Day Extravaganza – Saturday, May 9
Welcome Birders This year, LWBA invites you to participate in Global Big Day. What is Global Big Day? Global Big Day 2026 is on Saturday, 9 May 2026, a 24-hour worldwide event inviting birders to document as many bird species as possible to support conservation. Organized by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, …
Peninsula Point Outing May 19, 2025
Planning birding outings has one big drawback: the weather. If we could wait for the best moments and then jump in our cars, that would be awesome. But rare is the day a little foul weather ruins a bird outing. It often makes it all the more rewarding and exciting. …
Chocolay Bayou X 2
At 4 a.m. Saturday, it was decided that the bird walk to Chocolay Bayou Nature Preserve would be a no-go due to wind gusts topping 28mph. At 7:30 two birders arrived on site, so we birded regardless of the darn wind. Troy, Clare, and I walked the route and recorded …
Presque Isle Bird Outing Report – May 3, 2025
With a bit of snow and heavy rain in the preceding days, the prospects were dim for any such great day of early spring birding in Marquette. Still, anything can happen when you get a great group of Yooper birders together on a chilly Saturday morning. They started with 22 …
Peninsula Point Outing
If it’s May, you should go to Peninsula Point. Even on a slow day, it is a wonderful, birdy place to be. LWAS has an outing to Peninsula Point every year (except during COVID), and this past Saturday everyone enjoyed a beautiful day with lots of birds. Although the winds …
Presque Isle Bird Outing – April 10, 2022
An intrepid group of LWAS birders made their way around Presque Isle Sunday morning, enjoying April’s first “warm” day and Laughing Whitefish Audubon’s first bird outing of 2022. Yes, it was above freezing, and the sun was shining. But what made the outing a success was the people and good …