Summer is slipping away fast at the Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory. By the time August is over, we will have seen the last of most of our long-distance migrants that arrived only a few months ago for a hurried breeding season in the boreal forest.

Their long journeys seem to have been worth every mile as our nets have been filled with young birds hatched a month or two ago and already heading out on their own migrations south. Capture rates for our Fall Migration Monitoring have picked up with August 7 capturing 127 birds and August 4 capturing a whopping 269 birds – 58 of which had to be released at the net since almost all of these birds were captured in the last net check of the day a…

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