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?
10 areas in Indiana. Switching state opens its best-scoring one.
patchy fog at first light
Legal light
6:57 AM
At dawn
69°F
Wind
3 mph NE
Pressure
Steady
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.
22 of 92 areas have only one stored survey, so they have no change to show — they appear grey.
579 ducks in the Goose Pond Fish and Wildlife Area survey area · as of Sep 2
First report for this survey area — no seasonal baseline to compare against yet.
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 69°F at Goose Pond Fish & Wildlife Area, Indiana with 2 mph wind from the NE. No significant front in the next few days (daytime highs hold steady). The latest survey counted 579 ducks at Goose Pond Fish and Wildlife Area (Sep 2).
Each morning scored at first light for Goose Pond Fish & Wildlife Area, Indiana. No front or north wind in the forecast — no morning stands out.
Patchy Fog
69°F at dawn · 84/68°
48% precip
68°F at dawn · 87/67°
Partly Cloudy
68°F at dawn · 90/67°
Goose Pond Fish & Wildlife Area, Indiana
6 AM
69°
2NE
7 AM
69°
2NE
8 AM
68°
2NE
9 AM
68°
3NE
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.
Goose Pond Fish & Wildlife Area, Indiana · as of Sep 11, 5:00 AM CT
Steady
Cold Front
No front (3-day highs steady)
2 mph
Wind
From the NE
Auto-generated from live NWS/USGS conditions and the latest official survey count.
Partly Cloudy
66°F at dawn · 89/64°
Clear
70°F at dawn · 93/69°
Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms
70°F at dawn · 92/68°
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.
New moon
0% lit — dark nights, better odds of a morning feed
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 (38 areas open)
Steady
Pressure
29.99 inHg, steady over 3h
Where to read Indiana's waterfowl counts straight from the agency.
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 Indiana'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.