The first wave of summer visitors arrived, and not only on cruise ships or in RVs. Dottie the whale was spotted and
photographed in Lutak Inlet by Ron Horn on May 7. Dottie is notable for the propeller scars on its flanks and white
markings on its dorsal fin. The day before, the Takshanuk Watershed Council migration survey recorded more than 50,000 birds moving north, including many species of ducks, geese, cranes, gulls, eagles, sandpipers
