Summer colours at The Vermilon River

 This is another really long post; so click any photo for the slide show. But first a couple of points. Re: the bear. Now own up to it all who admitted to fear and trepidation. You would have done what I did: taken as many photos as possible.(Besides running from a bear is about the worse thing you can do.) At lunch at the restaurant over fresh caught pickerel, out of cold local lake waters, or an omelet, with cameras on the table, we would have toasted with a fine Canadian white, or a micro brewed ale ( no light US stuff for we hikers) our wood lore, praised our camera ability, and decided where to hike tomorrow. Canada has about 18,000 km of hiking trails known as the the Trans-Canada Trail, although it's not all complete yet. They vary from wilderness, such as where I am to easier trails in the south. Also, the strange moth in the last post turned out to be a clear wing, a  moth that feeds on nectar just like a Hummingbird, and is known as the "Hummingbird Moth".

Black Swallowtail

Devils Paintbrush

Early stage of Clear Wing Moth

Adult Clear Wing Moth. See the proboscis at the front he uses to suck nectar 

Female Redstart

Female Wood Duck

Geese and Goslings.

Honey Suckle (Thanks Arija and Linda)

Laurel

Honey Suckle

Monarch

Unknown

Close up Wild Rose

Yarrow

Cavorting Raven 

Black Swallowtail

Copper coloured Dragonfly

 Female Northern Flicker( no mustache). I entered this small trail and she proceeded to berate me something awful. She was protecting her nest which you'll see later.

Laurel

Raven

Female Wood Duck

Female Wood Duck

Close up

Female Northern Flicker

Same 

See no mustache

Buttercups

Honey Suckle

Wild Rose

See the copper in his wings.

Damsel Fly

Same

Wild Daisy and grasshopper

 An Iris from my garden. I just realized that I had forgotten to include the Blue Flags, the wild blue iris, that grows on the edge of wetlands. Oh well there's always another post.You can see from what's here how alive the forest is with colour.
 I'm still working on another video which deals with one of my 8 km hikes. A post to: Id Rather B Birdin, Our World Tuesday, and WBW.

I completed the other video; it's at Video.

Female Northern Flicker

Same

Female Red-winged Blackbird

Front view

Wild Forget Nots

Goat's Beard

Male Red-winged Blackbird

Mauve Dame's Rocket

Wild Lily of the Valley (Canada Mayflower)

Mourning Cloak

Her nest

Canada Nettle

Wild Lupins

Star Flowers

Tansy

Dragonfly

Yellow Lily

Corporal Dragonfly

Unknown

Dame's Rocket

Swallowtail on Devil's Paintbrush

Bee on wild Lupin

Female Redstart