6-11-16: Saturday Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Nova Scotia
What a beautiful spring day we had here with sunshine, a cool breeze and temperatures between 52 this morning and 65 this afternoon. This national park attempts to protect forever the heritage of these highlands. Of protected old-age deciduous forest in Nova Scotia, 80% is in this valley. Acid rain can weaken this forest and its trees could die so they ask for everyone's help to preserve the forest.
Male Magnolia Warbler
Though this bird has very specific habitat preferences in the breeding season, which is now, it occupies a broad range of habitats in the winter; from sea level up to 5,000' elevation.
Our morning 6 mile hike was in the Boreal Forest
The Skyline hike had beautiful scenery and lots of steps on the cliff face at the end
Along the way we saw how they are trying to protect the new trees from the always hungry moose.
They are trying their best to preserve this beautiful and rare butterfly
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Unfortunately we didn't see any
Lincoln's Sparrow
A new trip bird for us
This bird was named by Audubon after his friend, Thomas Lincoln. Lincoln shot the bird on a trip with Audubon to Nova Scotia in 1834.
Yellow-Dumped Warbler
Male in breeding finery. Able to digest 80% of wax-coated berries such as bayberries, these birds are capable of wintering farther north than any other warbler.
Olive-sided Flycatcher
A new Life Bird for us as we had never seen this species before.
These flycatchers undertake the longest migration of any of North America's flycatchers, arriving on their breeding grounds in the spring.
Labrador Tea
Pitcher Plants
We are a little early for them to bloom
Bog Bean
(Carnivorous) Sundews
What a jigsaw puzzle this would make!
Green Frogs
Will send the audio of their calls when we get back into the US as audios won't transfer from our I Phone to the computers in Canada.
Billboards
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