New Trails of The Vermilon River

 The weather was warm and cold, but wet pretty well all the time, whether it was rain or snow. So hiking was restricted to dry days without much sun. One of those hikes was to the rapids to see the the white water at its high level.
The new trails refers to the opposite photo and here's the story. I seldom take Boom on the west side of the River, because of other dogs who are allowed to run free. Boom, although big is well mannered, but I never want him in any questionable position. So we have restricted our travel to the east side of the River. It's all the same forest anyway. Once summer passes, and he has resurrected himself, he would start to normally accompany me. We would use the forest stretch right behind us to enter the trails, but Boom and I are aging. I could not manage the rock shelf that we normally use to climb the ridge behind us without his pulling me over it, and I did not want to do this as he's older now; in fact, he'll be ten in December. But fortunately we found a more manageable trail. So yesterday we started slowly into our hikes to ease him into the exercise. In the first photo we're on top of the ridge looking at the ridge on the far side of the River.

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See the bubbles in the water opposite.

A post to Sky Watch Friday,and Camera Critters.

Chickadee in flight.

Chickadee

Dark-eyed Junco

Drenched Blue Jay.

Dry Blue Jay.

Female Wood Duck

Waiting for the sun.

Swollen Rapids.

Upper River.

Robin hiding.

Red Squirrel

Swamp Sparrow.

White-crowned Sparrow.

White-throated Sparrow hiding in a black spruce tree.

White-throated Sparrow.

Chickadee in flight.

Dark-eyed Junco.

Same drenched Blue Jay.

Quick take off.

Immature White-crown. all puffed up.

Downy Woodpecker

Rose-breasted Nuthatch.

White water.

Close up Red Squirrel

Swamp Sparrow.

White-throated Sparrow.

Chickadee at lunch.

Immature white-crown

Back of male Downy Woodpecker.

 Swollen Upper River 

White Throat.

Agile Chickadee.

Squirrel

Close up Swamp Sparrow.

Squirrel

Side view Swamp Sparrow.

Huegy and family

Huegy, Northern Crow.

Male Downy

Current in River.

White water.

Rose-breasted Nuthatch.

Chickadee.