Although goose migration has tapered off, our songbirds arrived in droves after being held up by stormy and snowy weather in southern Alberta last week. The biggest days for migration at the Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory were May 9 and 10 with around 2,500 Myrtle Warblers counted each day and diversity shot up with only one day recording fewer than 65 species.

Some residents and short-distance migrants, such as Black-capped Chickadees and American Robins, have built their nests and are sitting on eggs. There is a flush of colour overtaking the grays of winter not only among the trees and grass, but among the birds as well. As our long-distance migrants arrive from Central and South Amer…

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