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?
9 areas in Alabama. Switching state opens its best-scoring one.
areas of fog at first light
Legal light
6:35 AM
At dawn
51°F
Wind
0 mph
Pressure
Rising
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.
Coverage is the Mississippi flyway for now — the Atlantic, Central and Pacific 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 Mallard-Fox Creek WMA, Alabama. 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 Mallard-Fox Creek WMA, Alabama. No front or north wind in the forecast — no morning stands out.
Areas Of Fog
51°F at dawn · 75/51°
Mostly Cloudy
52°F at dawn · 75/51°
Mostly Clear
49°F at dawn · 77/47°
Mallard-Fox Creek WMA, Alabama
8 AM
51°
0
9 AM
55°
0
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.
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.
Mallard-Fox Creek WMA, Alabama · as of Oct 27, 8:00 AM CT
Steady
Cold Front
No front (3-day highs steady)
0 mph
Wind
Direction n/a
Partly Cloudy
51°F at dawn · 78/50°
Slight Chance Rain Showers
58°F at dawn · 74/58°
10 mph SE at dawn · 63% precip
59°F at dawn · 73/59°
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.
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Water Levels
Nearest-gauge mapping pending
Open
Freeze & push
No freeze in 72h · no push from the north (35 areas open)
Rising
Pressure
30.31 inHg, rising over 4h — clearing behind a front
Waterfowl survey reporting for Alabama.
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.
Straight from Alabama's agency — we link rather than repeat them.
Season dates, zones and limits change every year and differ by zone. Confirm with the agency before you hunt — their page is the only version that counts.