top) the day's bounty: northern pike, two mergansers, two mallards, and a golden eye duck.

middle) the mergansers surprised me. i have seen lots of them before, but never close enough to make our their unique bills. with alligator like qualities it is easy to see how these ducks have the ability to catch and eat fish. the sharp jagged teeth would make it easy to grab and hold onto small aquatic prey.

bottom) i went camping with mervin yellowback, he has a new tent down river. hunting and fishing all day. we were ideally hoping to get into some low flying snow geese, but luck did not permit. the only snow geese we saw were flying really high in the night sky. i was content with that, it was beautiful to watch massive flocks with hundreds of geese crossed through a huge full moon. on the second day i caught a decent amount of northern pike and mervin and i knocked down 18 ducks and 2 canadian geese. all the birds were given to friends and communtiy members. it was a great weekend as the first signs of summer revealed themselves through weather and wildlife activity. duck in cree is 'sisip' and river is 'sipi'.