So we all knew it was coming but still we're shocked. This has been one of the earliest springs ever and we haven't had the usual warm day followed by snow the next. We have gotten ourselves quite used to the welcomed warmth, parkas put away for the season and thoughts of summer clothing was running in our heads. But alas today the wind picked up and quickly started blowing from the North and we are now in a full blown blizzard. The winds are blowing at about 90 kilometers, the temperature is -15 C and there is some snow thrown in so all is back to normal. Tomorrow will probably be +20 C and everything will melt and so goes a sub-arctic spring.

I mentioned a Polar Bear attack up north in a previous entry and have since learned that it happened in 1999 and someone is passing it off as this year. We did the research when we noticed no snow on the ground in a location north of here when there is still snow here. Ha caught ya.

Oh yeah, birds. I saw my first two gulls yesterday but couldn't ID them as I was at work with no bins I know for sure they weren't Ross's. Not that I wouldn't bird at work, I do it all the time just didn't have equipment yesterday so all I could see was pink legs. I really don't care if it was Herring or Ring-billed but just to hear a gull again means so many things, open water in the area, new birds will be coming all the time and the hope of spring is now a reality dispite the blizzard. The Canada Geese are here but I haven't heard anyone even mention Snows.

I am a security guard at the Town Centre Complex in Churchill and the building sits right on the edge of the bay. I have from the windows of the building seen a Snowy Owl, Dark-eyed Junco, Red-throated Loon, Polar Bears. Artcic Foxes, Arctic Hares, lots of Snow Buntings, many many Ravens (they keep me company in the winter), Aurora Borialis some of the best I've seen is in the middle of the night from the back deck (when I work night shift) and one wolf just the other day walked right through town. Most people thought that it was a really big dog. It came in on the CN railroad tracks, the guys down at the station came out of their shed to find it loping down the tracks. Cool. That's my third wolf in 8 years here, good for me.