Conditions dashboard
Migration Center
Live weather and water conditions, with an auto-generated forecast for the area you pick.
Conditions dashboard
Live weather and water conditions, with an auto-generated forecast for the area you pick.
Conditions dashboard
Live weather and water conditions, with an auto-generated forecast for the area you pick.
Where do you want to hunt?
11 areas in Oregon. Switching state opens its best-scoring one.
rain showers likely at first light
Legal light
7:14 AM
At dawn
51°F
Wind
10 mph SSW
Pressure
Falling
Best-scoring areas right now, ranked by conditions and the latest survey counts.
Ranked by Hunt Score adjusted for confidence — an area backed by real survey counts outranks one scored on weather alone at the same number.
What's pushing birds south across the Mississippi flyway — freeze, fronts and north wind — with the measured counts on top. Click the map to open it full size.
Oregon is in the Pacific flyway. The heatmap covers the Mississippiflyway for now, so it isn't showing your area yet — the conditions, outlook and shooting light above are for Oregon. The other three flyways are coming.
Change since each area’s previous survey — arrow up filling, arrow down emptying, and the number is birds per day.
24 of 96 areas have only one stored survey, so they have no change to show — they appear grey.
No recent survey count for this area — the score below rests on weather and water only.
An engineering estimate that blends live weather, water, and the latest official survey count — not a validated prediction. Missing inputs lower confidence, not the number.
It's 51°F at Fern Ridge Wildlife Area, Oregon with 10 mph wind from the SSW. No significant front in the next few days (daytime highs hold steady).
Auto-generated from live NWS/USGS data. No recent survey count for this area, so this describes conditions, not confirmed birds.
Each morning scored at first light for Fern Ridge Wildlife Area, Oregon. No front or north wind in the forecast — no morning stands out.
10 mph SSW at dawn · 91% precip
51°F at dawn · 55/48°
15 mph SSW at dawn · 73% precip
48°F at dawn · 54/45°
Chance Rain Showers
45°F at dawn · 51/42°
Fern Ridge Wildlife Area, Oregon
5 AM
51°
10SSW
61%
6 AM
49°
9SSW
75%
7 AM
48°
7SW
91%
8 AM
49°
6
What the dashboard reads
A sharp drop in the daytime highs, a north wind pushing behind it, and water holding on the marsh — that's the mix that fills the sky. The drivers below are those exact signals, read live.
Fern Ridge Wildlife Area, Oregon · as of Oct 27, 7:00 AM CT
Steady
Cold Front
No front (3-day highs steady)
10 mph
Wind
From the SSW
Mostly Cloudy
41°F at dawn · 54/39°
Mostly Cloudy
41°F at dawn · 52/39°
Partly Cloudy
39°F at dawn · 54/38°
Scored over the dawn window (5–10am local) from the NWS hourly forecast, using the same model as the Hunt Score. Water and survey counts don't have a per-day forecast, so they are held level across the strip — the day-to-day movement here is weather.
Full moon
98% lit — birds may feed overnight and sit tight at dawn
Federal shooting hours are a half hour before sunrise to sunset; some states narrow this. Confirm with the state agency.
64%
9 AM
49°
5WSW
28%
NWS hourly forecast for the legal-light window, on the area's local clock. Wind arrows point the way the wind is blowing; the letters are the direction it comes from.
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Water Levels
Nearest-gauge mapping pending
Open
Freeze & push
No freeze in 72h · 5/100 push from the north (10 areas)
Falling
Pressure
30.05 inHg, falling over 3h — a front is working in
Waterfowl survey reporting for Oregon.
Counts from these reports are stored and used to anchor the Hunt Score and the migration heatmap. Figures belong to the publishing agency — follow the link for the current numbers.