WTD#4 - Slocan Pool, etc

There are some lovely trails and walks around the Kootenay River dams at South Slocan.  Cool and shady on a hot day and lots of spots where Dawg can cool off in the river!  Here are a few photos from some of our walks this spring.

Dawg is enjoying the shady Slocan Pool loop trail.

Hooker's Fairy Bells are blooming (early-mid May)

There are lots of Horsetails along the river.

This is a Red-naped Sapsucker.  It posed, pretty much immobile, on the trunk of the Douglas Fir tree for quite a while - very cooperative!

Worth another look.

Wild Ginger is also blooming this time of year.

Skunk Cabbage leaf

I think it's either a Winter Wren or a House Wren

Bearberry (Uva Ursi) in bloom

There were lots of red ants on the Pussytoes growing in the cleared area along the Kootenay Canal

This is a female Red-winged Blackbird in the wetlands below the Corra Linn dam.

This is what remains of a cluster of Saskatoon blossoms atfter the petals have fallen off.

Male Common Goldeneye in the Kootenay River near South Slocan

A white flutterby is about to alight upon a blossom, near the Kootenay River below Bonnington.


That's it for WTD#4. 

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Cheers,

Walkin The Dawg