A Cold-ish Return To Gull Point

This past Sunday, it was finally time to muster up the energy, despite cold/snowy conditions, to head back to Gull Point at Presque Isle State Park. Advantage to hiking out to Gull Point this time of year? Very quiet in terms of human activity.

Budny Beach looking towards Gull Point
“The beach edge was clear and frozen, making for easy hiking over the sand.”
Deer along the trail
Mallards at edge of slushy ice
Mallards departing @ Thompson Bay
Tundra Swan, etc. at Thompson Bay
Ditto
Tundra Swans floating on Thompson Bay
Foreshadowing
Outer Gull Point, late fall 2025
Old observation platform w/ gulls in background
North beach w/ gulls

What was probably a Peregrine Falcon had been earlier seen chasing another bird through the tree-line woods, but it flew out of sight. Best thing to do – scan the dune lines from one of the observation platforms:

Observations from the old observation platform actually worked!

Following all Peregrine Falcon unless noted otherwise, perched on driftwood or flying at Gull Point under dark/gloomy conditions w/ snow:

Gulls take flight
Mergansers in flight

Coming up soon, “falcon meets foreshadowing in an unpleasant way for one of the two…”