Monday Morning

One of my posts asked the question about how you could tell if Fall or Autumn was coming. Here are some pretty pictures of fall leaves.


On Sunday we took a field trip to Kejimkujik National Park despite the forecast of rain. We did pretty good and only got rain at the very end of the trip. Took the hike to the Hemlock Forest which was very interesting.Some of the trees were over 400 years old. They were so tall that I could not get them to fit in my camera window.

According to the brochure there are a great many varieties of mammals in the park: white tail deer, moose, voles, mice and shrews, bobcat, squirrels, raccoons, porcupine, snowshoe hare, black bear, seals, coyote and american martens. We saw a white tail deer on the side of the road.
We also saw a small squirrel but that was all the mammals that we saw.

Wally was hoping to see one of his relatives but the moose live way out in the park. The white tail deer are wiping out the moose population because they are spreading a brain worm called Parelaphostrongylus tenuis, also known as a parasitic nematode. The deer are immune to this infection but the moose are not. The moose population has dwindled down because of this problem.

This morning we will head back out to Cooks Lake to reset our traps in different locations.