Here we are finally! I swear it takes me twenty minutes to sign in but finally I wrote it down correctly so next time should be easier. It seems evertime I use it my password changes.

It is still spring in Churchill and now it seems to have started in earnest. The lead on the bay looks a couple of miles wide and the sun is out so the mirages are beautiful. Maybe someday I will get really ambitious and name the mountain ranges that I see, like the explorer I just read about. He named a mountain range that didn't exsist and it stayed named for years until it was discovered not to actually be there.

The bear attack that I spoke of yesterday didn't happen this year it was in 1990. I spoke to Kevin Burke and he cleared that up for me. I also spoke to David about violence etc. and he mentioned a killing here where a twin killed his twin brother, I've been searching the internet and I can't find any mention of it. I want to be able to add this story to the gun slinger story to the tourists.

The complex is full of people there is a cub car rally for the scouts and guides and earth day is happening in the overpass. It's too bad because the sun is shining and all of these kids should be outside getting the sun on their skin.

The bay (Hudson) is still frozen but there is water sitting on top of the ice. Yesterday and this morning it seemed like spring but this afternoon it feels like winter. Spring is coming too early as somewhere north of here the bears are off the ice and one has already attacked an inuit hunter. The hunter survived but the pictures are horrible the bear scalped the man.

I still haven't seen a gull but people tell me they are around, it makes sense because I can see the lead on the bay from the Complex windows so there is open water around.

After waiting for what seems like forever and reading about everyone else's spring birder it now seems as if spring has finally arrived in Churchill. On April 18, Eleanor and I went out and saw a nice group of birds on Goose Creek Road. A total of 18 Canada Geese but no Snow Geese at all yet. Surprisingly 2 pair of Mallards and a pair of Northern Pintails, at the bailey bridge we saw the Osprey hunting. At Mrs. B's feeder we had a few Common Redpolls and 5 Pine Grosbeak (2 male and 3 female)

We got to the Port and there were thousands of Snow Buntings everywhere you looked there was another flock of about 70 birds per. Not so many Redpolls as before, they must be in the bush nesting because there were mqny, mqny a week ago.