For the July 1st, Canada Day long weekend, we did as we had done for the May long weekend, taking an extra 5 days off to extend the mini vacation. This time we started at Tunkwa.
The month of June had been as wet and cool here as elsewhere in the province, resulting in a very green, lush landscape with high water levels for the lake.
With our favorite site taken, we settled for this one, the same spot we had stayed in last Thanksgiving…
Shantz was very happy to have ‘husky television’ as not only were there various water fowl, but also many…
Yellow-bellied Marmots, running here, there and everywhere!
I was happy to be able to sit at the water’s edge were there were Lesser Scaup – the males already out of breeding plumage, but still paired up and no ducklings to be seen…
was also kind of confused by this pair of Red-necked Grebe that were constantly together, seemed to be loosing their breeding plumage but with no young.
these Mallard ducklings were well on their way to maturity…
and there were lots of young American Coot. In fact youngsters and very busy parents feeding them, was definitely the theme and we’ll continue on in part two.
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