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Buck Hills Road ER image gallery October 2012
On October 12, Ecological Reserve warden Norbert Maertens accompanied Friends of Ecological Reserves Board member Garry Fletcher and Niran Lella to the Buck Hills Road Ecological Reserve. The photos below were taken by Niran and Garry.
Also see the Panoramas taken:
- Look way up!
- Bracket fungus .
- Holes in the rocks make ideal dens for mammals like the Pika.
- Bracket fungus.
- Club moss.
- Juniper with a golden larch in the background.
- A fallen branch with cones from the larch.
- Dwarfed red huckleberry, possibly from grazing.
- Eagle’s nest at top of a larch.
- Eagle nest at the top of a larch tree.
- Girth of an old-growth larch.
- Garry and Norbert.
- Rock mound and larch trees.
- Old basalt columns.
- Rock mound.
- Old-growth larch in the centre of the reserve. There was a steady rain of needles as we stood in the reserve.
- VEgetation on the rocks.
- Garry and Norbert on the rock mound
- ER sign.
- Moose droppings on the trail.
- Chipmunk
- Pileated woodpecker feeding hole.
- Pine Blister
- Evidence of cattle in the unfenced reserve.
- Niran photographing the spruce grouse.
- Spruce Grouse calling.
- Blue or Dusky Grouse
- Spruce grouse photo by Niran Lella
- Spruce Grouse looking up.
- Spruce Grouse in the reserve.
- Niran and Norbert Maertens on the old roadbed.
- The old roadbed is gradually becoming overgrown.
- Logging has been done right to the edge of the reserve. The new Buck Hills Road.