As June 10 brings closer the last day of the Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory’s Spring Migration Monitoring program, the forest is full of love, but few migrants.

Despite the seemingly persistent high winds and rain which kept the nets shut, we continued to count birds daily. While most migrants were large flocks of Cedar Waxwings or Pine Siskins, there were Mourning Warblers and Alder Flycatchers arriving too.

We found our station’s first ever Western Kingbird (a species that can easily be found breeding around Drumheller). It’s exciting, but not necessarily shocking since it comes on the tail of recent records for several other birds more typical of southern Alberta: Willet, Western Meado…

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