The bay has broken up, seems like it happened Friday night. The river is open and the birding is on in earnest. The bay is full of floes and we will be watching them until into the summer going back and forth with the tide.

Birds... There is a Perigrin nest and no I'm not telling where, it is in the Churchill area how's that? We've seen Least and Stilt Sandpipers, the Short-billed Dowichers are here and we've had spotty sightings of Hudsonian Godwits, there should be more now.

Dr. Birder had a Swainson's Thrush at Cape Merry which is weird it is not the proper environment for them at all. He told us about Eared Grebes and we found them which was a life bird for both of us.

The Horned Larks and the Lapland Longspurs are so fat right now they must be getting ready to go further north. It took us a while to recognise the Larks they look like little butterballs. We had a Yellow Warbler at the Weir and we were also seeing Redpolls flit about so they are probably feeding the kids. A researcher at the Study Centre is reporting seeing a Northern Wheatear at halfway point so we may go head out for that. Both the Blackbellied and Golden Plovers are here, we saw Golden but no Blackbellied as yet. We have one Loon on the list for the year, Pacific and are now looking for a Red-necked and a Common, now that the Bay is open that should be easy.

A surprising thing this year is the number of American Pipits, I don't know if I just didn't notice them in other years but there seems to be lots. The same goes for European Starlings and American Robins there are everywhere you look, the Starlings are still in big flocks.

No Ross's Gull yet.