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Churchill Trip : June 23 - July 11, 2019

Part 2 - Churchill

June 28: Winnipeg to Churchill

On the way north from Winnipeg, I landed at Gimli Airport just because. From there it was on to Gillam for fuel before making an IFR flight to Churchill.

Winnipeg	Canadian Museum for Human Rights	Oak Hammock Marsh	On approach to Gimli
Gimli Airport	Gimli	Across the Canadian Shield near Bloodvein	Lily Pad Lake
Island Lake	Gods Lake	On approach to Gillam	Not much to see enroute to Churchill
On approach to Churchill

June 28: Churchill

The granary ponds are right at the edge of town, so I checked them out after dinner.

Arctic Tern	Some leftover river ice	Flock of Bonaparte's Gulls	Parasitic Jaeger
Herring Gull on nest	Arctic Tern on nest?	Spotted Sandpiper	Pack ice in the distance
cIMG_01486.JPG	Lots of murals in town	pIMG_01491.JPG

June 29: Churchill

I spent more time at the granary ponds in the morning.

Yellow Warbler	Lesser Yellowlegs (?)	pIMG_6655.JPG	Semipalmated Plover
pIMG_6660.JPG	Gulp!	pIMG_6676.JPG	pIMG_6686.JPG
cIMG_6689.JPG	Bumblebee	pIMG_6697.JPG	pIMG_01500.JPG
Yellow Warbler	pIMG_6713.JPG	White-crowned Sparrow	Tern buzzing a gull's nest
pIMG_6756.JPG	pIMG_6761.JPG	pIMG_6765.JPG	pIMG_6771.JPG
Spotted Sandpiper	Lesser Yellowlegs (?)	pIMG_6779.JPG	Green-winged Teal and chicks
pIMG_6787.JPG	Short-billed Dowitcher (?)	cIMG_6795.JPG	cIMG_6800.JPG
pIMG_6802.JPG	pIMG_6807.JPG	Itsanitaq Museum	cIMG_6811.JPG
cIMG_6819.JPG

June 29: Beluga Whale Estuary Tour

We were pretty much surrounded by Belugas the whole time!

pIMG_6839.JPG	pIMG_6842.JPG	cIMG_6875.JPG	pIMG_6915.JPG
pIMG_6934.JPG	pIMG_6965.JPG	cIMG_7019.JPG	cIMG_7030.JPG
pIMG_7070.JPG	pIMG_7100.JPG	pIMG_7110.JPG	pIMG_7163.JPG
cIMG_7187.JPG	Common Eiders	pIMG_7229.JPG	pIMG_7235.JPG
pIMG_7248.JPG	pIMG_7284.JPG	pIMG_7299.JPG	pIMG_7308.JPG
pIMG_7333.JPG	Parasitic Jaeger chasing gull	pIMG_7339.JPG

June 30: Churchill

Still on foot, I walked out to Cape Merry with a group, then hung around the granary ponds until some thunderstorms rolled in. I didn't realize the red Adirondack (Muskoka) chairs were a thing in Canadian National Parks and Historical Sites until later. They were added for Canada's 150th anniversary a couple years ago.

Fog shrouded granary	pIMG_7378.JPG	pIMG_7379.JPG	pIMG_7385.JPG
pIMG_01515.JPG	cIMG_7388.JPG	Surf Scoters	A Beluga pod in the river
pIMG_7403.JPG	A seal	Arctic butterfly	Parasitic Jaeger
pIMG_7429.JPG	Prince of Wales Fort appears out of the fog.	Common Eider (females)	pIMG_7443.JPG
American Robin	pIMG_7474.JPG	Savannah Sparrow	pIMG_7488.JPG
Red-necked Phalarope	pIMG_7502.JPG	pIMG_7504.JPG	pIMG_7515.JPG
pIMG_7516.JPG	cIMG_7529.JPG	Storm approaching

July 1: Churchill

I took a guided birding tour in the morning, then walked along the Churchill River in the afternoon.

Miss Piggy	Pacific Loon	Tundra Swan	Northern Harrier
Hudsonian Godwit	pIMG_7590.JPG	American Golden Plover	pIMG_7601.JPG
Greater Scaup (?)	The Golf Balls	Long-tailed Duck (female)	pIMG_7611.JPG
pIMG_7615.JPG	Common Raven	Willow Ptarmigan	pIMG_7646.JPG
pIMG_7662.JPG	pIMG_7666.JPG	Willow Ptarmigan (female)	pIMG_7696.JPG
Bonaparte's Gull	Yellow Warbler	The Ithaka	pIMG_7726.JPG
pIMG_7727.JPG	pIMG_7731.JPG	Tundra Swans with chicks	pIMG_7740.JPG
Red-breasted Merganser	American Kestrel (?)	pIMG_7755.JPG	pIMG_7759.JPG
pIMG_7769.JPG	pIMG_7771.JPG	pIMG_7778.JPG	Herring Gull chicks
Herring Gulls	pIMG_7793.JPG	Green-winged Teal	Common Eider
pIMG_7810.JPG	Common Eider with chicks	pIMG_7829.JPG	pIMG_7838.JPG
pIMG_7850.JPG	Bonaparte's Gull	pIMG_7860.JPG	pIMG_7871.JPG
pIMG_7875.JPG	pIMG_7885.JPG	pIMG_7890.JPG	pIMG_7893.JPG
pIMG_7909.JPG	pIMG_7917.JPG

July 1: Churchill

The town put on a Canada Day fireworks show in the evening.

Setting up the fireworks	It's still pretty light at 11PM	pIMG_7937.JPG	pIMG_7965.JPG
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