Gr@y & Blue Fall Road Trip 05

This was a day to stay in place and enjoy my surrounds. Grasslands is the only national park in Canada to preserve a mixed-grass prairie ecosystem with over 70 types of grasses and over 50 species of wildflowers. It preserves the native prairie. It is the only place in Canada where Black-tailed Prairie Dogs (below) exist in their native habitat.

I went for a morning walk up the hill behind the shelter. It was cold with overcast sky and lots of wind. At one point after trying to fly our one challenging pocket kite I decided to tie the tail on to the trailer so that I could align the kitchen out of the wind. In the picture below you can see one of the many holes to the Prairie Dog dens.

This was a day of seeing Bison (above bottom), White Tailed and Mule Deer in the same field, Coyote (below top), Ring-necked Pheasant, Northern Flicker, Horned Lark (below middle), Northern Harrier, Sharp-tailed Grouse (below bottom), Merlin, White Crowned Sparrow, and Burrowing Owl.