A week in Algonquin Provincial Park doesn't sound too bad in terms of school does it? Well I would say that this field course felt more like a vacation than work.I drove up by myself from Ottawa. It was a very long but relaxing and nice ride. I arrive in Algonquin and I'm getting more and more excited. There are moose signs lining the many winding curves of the highway 60 corridor. I pull into the Wildlife Research Station and this dirt road takes me to my home for the next two weeks.
Our first day in Algonquin we took a walk in the airfield.
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| It's blueberry season and the airfield is filled with tasty treats |
Catching insects in the airfield. Little did I know at this point that I would spend a lot of the week catching insects for a project. On this first walk through the airfield I found a gorgeous metallic dogbane beetle.I also saw cicadas, white admirals, dragonflies and grasshoppers.
Some fungi...
There were many caterpillars crawling around.
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| Tussocks moth caterpillar |
We went canoeing around Lake Saskegewan that the WRS is located on.
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| Sarah canoeing |
While canoeing we saw osprey, great blue herons, loons. The shallow lake was filled with dead trees, pondweed, water shield and sedges.
At the Dam that evening I saw many darners catching insects as they fly around.
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