The indexwildlifethe week of, at best
Rare-bird drop-ins (vagrants)
Fires when eBird notable-observation alert within the radius
Photograph Jay · CC0
The weekly build has been paused since October 6, 2026. The seasons and dates below still hold. Events are the ones the last finished build found, in the week of 2026-09-13, that have not happened yet — anything announced since is missing, and nothing here reflects this week's weather.
January through December. The notch is October.
- Where
- varies weekly
- Drive
- 60 minutes from Lakeland
- In season
- January through December
- Certainty
- the week of, at best
- Drone
- no
How often we have called it on
We have not once called this on, across 7 Sunday builds. That is our own weekly verdict rather than a measurement of the trigger, and a condition that fires midweek can pass between two builds.
From the field
Flamingos after storms, painted buntings, snail kite wanderers — viral precisely because rare.