The Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory’s spring migration monitoring program continues to wind down. Only a handful of species including Cedar Waxwings, Mourning Warblers, and Alder Flycatchers are still passing through, although recent encounters with a Short-billed Gull (formerly Mew Gull) and an American Pipit were exceptionally late in the season for some excitement. With 561 birds banded from 40 species, we have gratefully lost the title of the slowest spring on record and are now instead the fifth slowest year since 1995.

Since most species have concluded their northward migration and many birds are already sitting on eggs, we have begun another banding program geared towards tracking …

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