Photo: Robins making merry in Kuujjuaq

While Iqaluit faces a snowfall warning June 3, with Environment Canada predicting 15 centimetres of snow for the Nunavut capital, an hour by air and 630 kilometres to the south in Kuujjuaq, where the forecast high is 11 C, the snow has melted and the songbirds are back. This robin trills a song June 2 on the top of a shed in Kuujjuaq, a sign that it’s set up housekeeping nearby. In Kuujjuaq, robins are known in Inuttitut as “ikkariliit” (a name that echoes the sound of the robin’s song). (PHOTO BY JANE GEORGE)