Two Firsts at Algonquin Park
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Two Firsts at Algonquin Park

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angieinto

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on: November 11, 2010, 05:12:35 AM
Friends of ours invited us up to Algonquin Park for the day yesterday due to some Gray Jay sightings. We had never seen them before and don't know the area, so gladly went with them.

I forgot all about the four hour drive as soon as I got out of the van and saw Gray Jays immediately! Made me feel like they were waiting for us! They weren't shy about landing in our hand for peanuts either. Rob posted some photos in the photo section of the board. What beautiful birds!

We also saw for the first time a Black-backed Woodpecker. Seeing her was worth the rough and muddy hike we took.

We had a great day at Algonquin, and look forward to going back when we can stay longer.  :D
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Reply #1 on: November 12, 2010, 09:44:02 AM
The Canada Jays really are something aren't they? I first saw them on the Mizzy Lake trail in the late 90's and years later, when I took my wife there to show her, I couldn't find them...I was able to show her her first moose...and it was a bull moose in all his glory feeding in a pond...but she was more interested in feeding the chipmunk...sigh...lol....
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Reply #2 on: November 12, 2010, 03:33:48 PM
We also heard Boreal Chickadees on the Mizzy Lake trail.  We were trying to spot them up above and that is when the Black Backed Woodpecker flew in.
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Reply #3 on: November 12, 2010, 08:44:06 PM
Axeman, they really were, so much so that I've already made arrangements for us to go back up in the New Year, to hopefully see them again!   :D
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Reply #4 on: November 14, 2010, 02:59:36 PM
I remember taking a sandwich out as I was hiking and that's when the first Gray Jay appeared like out of vapour and stole my sandwich just as it reached my lips...

The one thing about the Mizzy lake trail is that it has NEVER let me down for moose spotting...

I'd love to see the GJ's again but I haven't been as lucky there the next couple of times I hiked it.
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