Lemoine's Point Conservation Area Critters

Kingston, ON

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This week I have a selection of small animals from the Lemoine's Point Conservation Area! All but one, are pics of the chipmunks. They are very friendly, sometimes too friendly...I find that having Zeek with us, they aren't as willing to come close. The black squirrel was the same...They get fed by alot of people, so aren't as "wild" as they should be!

They are fast little buggers too, so you have to be quick with the click (of the camera shutter)! :-)

Next time I will have some woodpecker photos from the same place/day as these were taken!

Have a great week!

Lemoine's Point Conservation Area Wildlife

Kingston, Ontario

Welcome back!

This time I'm highlighting some of the wildlife found at the Lemoine's Point Conservation Area in Kingston, Ontario. We love going for walks here in the spring and fall.

This day in June 2015, we saw mallard ducks and their babies as well as a few squirrels and chipmunks. Here are a few of those pics with more coming over the next couple of weeks too!

We are heading to Ontario for Easter holidays, so I won't be posting for a couple of weeks. Have a great Easter weekend!

More soon!

Algonquin Adventures, Pt.5

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This time I'm highlighting some photos of flowers/plants and some scenery. I have included some red trilliums, the white dutchman's breeches and some fiddleheads for plants. 

The scenery shots are from the Lookout Trail. We didn't walk the whole trail. We actually just went to the end, where this lookout was..we were getting lazy by this time of day and it was sprinkling out...I didn't want Kevin to melt. :-)

The last two shots are of a little noisy chipmunk that was chirping at us (probably at Zeek)!

I have a few more moose shots next time and that will be it for our Algonquin Adventures!

Well, this week was kind of mixed up...the van appt isn't until next Thursday (duh!) I didn't read the date! I also had my dentist appt moved from next week to this week, so that was fun! Only a cleaning, so not so bad!

The girls and I went and picked strawberries and peas down the road from our house at Kaiser Lake Farms. That was a yummy trip!

Keturah writes two exams today and then she'll be officially done Grade 11! Starting Monday, I won't ever have my house to myself...quiet and clean! :-) Kevin has one week of work left before he is off for the summer too! Brooke will be the only one working! :-)

Nothing planned for the weekend! Enjoy it!

 

Scenes from Lemoine's Point!

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This time I'm highlighting some shots I took while at Lemoine's Point Conservation Area in Kingston. This is probably our favourite place to go hiking...It takes us about 1.5-2hrs to go through the trail, but we often stop to feed the critters and of course, to take photos! I'm usually lugging 40lbs of camera equipment with me, so I'm usually way behind the family!

This time I'm including some photos of flowers and/or scenery..I don't usually add a lot of these as my favourite subject is wildlife, but I liked these photos and thought we needed some brightness, after the dreary rain we've been having here in Ontario!

I debated including the caterpillar and it took everything in me for me to add it...I HATE these things--even more than snakes! Yicky! Lucky for it, it's colourful!

Well, this week has been quiet..I've been feeling kind of crappy since Saturday...headache, plugged ears and sinuses....The Tylenol Cold/Flu that I take also upsets my stomach..lucky me! So, I've been taking it easy and trying not to take anything!

Later this week I'll have a few more shots from Lemoine's Point, including a deer and some birds! We always find a variety of critters there!

After that, I'm not sure what I'll include..maybe it's time to get out and shoot something new...A trip to Amherst Island may be in order!

 

A Hiking We Will Go....

Last Sunday was so beautiful that we went for a walk around Lemoine's Point in Kingston. It's a pretty nice walk, but even better if you get to see some critters! Here are all the ones we saw throughout the walk..sorry for posting so many this week, but I couldn't narrow it down to just 2-3 this week!

1st-Bluejay

2nd-Chickadee

3rd-Nuthatch

4th-Woodpecker-he was far away!

5th-the sun shining through the trees

6th-chipmunk, pigging out on the seeds

7th-fat squirrel eating something

8th-squirrel checking us out

9th-another squirrel

10th-a black squirrel

My friend Melissa and I were at the Toronto Zoo on Friday and I took 3 SD cards full of pictures, so once I get through them, I'll be sure and post some shots...We had an awesome day for shooting. It was a bit chilly, but didn't rain on us! The animals tend to be more active too! I got to see and shoot the African Penguins too..they are so darn cute, I wanted to sneak one home!

Lemoine's Point Critters

A couple of weekends ago we went for our first hike at Lemoine's! The trilliums were growing well, but were not open yet. We saw a few critters there...Mostly chickadees, chipmunks, squirrels, woodpecker and a blue jay! My girlie, Keturah fed some chickadees from her hand...They are still pretty tame. The bluejay looked pretty hard, but would not land on anyone's hand! The chipmunks were pretty tame as well and wanted some sunflower seeds..luckily we brought lots and Keturah fed them too!

Enjoy!

A Hiking We Will Go...

Yep, we went hiking on Sunday since it was such a beautiful day. Brooke's friend, Keegan came along with us too as we hiked through Lemoine's Point in Kingston! We saw the usual critters there, including the pictures below:

1st-chickadee

2nd-nuthatch

3rd-chipmunk

Chipmunks!

Here are three shots of chipmunks I took last Saturday at Lemoine's Point in Kingston. All of them were eating the seeds we brought for the chickadees. Oddly, we only saw a couple of chickadees this time and they weren't even hungry...We didn't see any snakes either, which was a good thing in my opinion!