Wendy Park / Whiskey Island
8.7/10
definitely go
- Wind
- WSW 14mph
- Dawn rain
- 7–16%
- Drive
- 30 min
- Sunrise
- 06:03
3,671,000+ birds crossed last night — large flight in progress. Expected high migration tonight — tomorrow's score may rise.
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Two Cleveland lakefront hotspots, scored for 2026-05-17. List mode optimizes for species count; photo mode adds soft light and calm-wind weighting.
Estimated pick (model)
Wendy Park
Scores within 0.1 of each other, but WSW 14mph flow favors Wendy's west-facing point for fallout.
Species count weighting
Wendy Park / Whiskey Island
definitely go
3,671,000+ birds crossed last night — large flight in progress. Expected high migration tonight — tomorrow's score may rise.
Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve (Dike 14)
definitely go
3,671,000+ birds crossed last night — large flight in progress. Expected high migration tonight — tomorrow's score may rise.
Soft light + calm wind weighting
Wendy Park / Whiskey Island
go
Strong S tailwind + heavy BirdCast traffic last night suggests birds bypassed for Canada — photo yield may lag list diversity.
Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve (Dike 14)
go
Strong S tailwind + heavy BirdCast traffic last night suggests birds bypassed for Canada — photo yield may lag list diversity.
Both sites share the same NOAA gridpoint family (CLE) and the same BirdCast county (Cuyahoga). The score divergence comes from geometry: Wendy is a west-facing point, Dike 14 is east-of-Wendy lakefill with more interior structure. back to today