Today we’ll bring this trip to a close. We finished it as we end most trips….with a few days to recoup at our favorite spot….Tunkwa Lake Provincial Park…
the heat continued…up into the low 30’s during the day, but thankfully cooled off in the evening once the sun had set… Due partly to the heat and partly to a medical situation that had been escalating throughout this trip didn’t do much but stick pretty close to the campsite….so will just show a few misc. pictures taken during that time….
the juniper bushes were a constant beehive of activity….here a Hairy Woodpecker…
and here a Yellow-rump Warbler, of which there were lots…also some young White-crowned Sparrows and Lincoln Sparrows.
Ruby-crowned Kinglets were about in large numbers as well…
I thought this might be something rare and exciting, but turns out it was a young Red-tail Hawk…
In the animal department, there were a few Chipmunk around…
this Yellow-bellied Marmot was the only one I saw – unusual to be up in a tree…
a muskrat in the water….
a few Fall Asters were still in flower, attracting various insects…
saw a few dragonflies…
but mostly we just looked forward to the moon rising and the air cooling off….
as this trip drew to a conclusion.
We would be back to Tunkwa in a few weeks time to finish off the camping season, as we always do, with Thanksgiving at Tunkwa.
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