Photos of the Lower
Churchill River valley by Marcel Gahbauer:
(scroll down for latest photos)
An inquisitive Gray Jay coming to visit during a point count
A bit of a surprise, a Short-billed Dowitcher near the Trans-Labrador
Highway
A male Spruce Grouse foraging among the lichens and Labrador tea
A recently fledged
Northern Shrike (part of a family of five) at a point count station
A comma investigating the foreign backpack put down in its territory
A net-winged beetle (Dictyopterus)
A flower long-horned
beetle (Evodinus monticola) by the Goose Bay airport
June 8 - in the area around Churchill Falls, some Bald Eagles and
Ospreys have taken to nesting
on small rock islands in the middle of lakes
June 8 - a closeup view of the island in the photo above, with an adult
on the nest sheltering
its recently hatched chicks
June 8 - another one of the rock nests, this one on the Smallwood
Reservoir. At the time of
our visit the water level was low and we were able to walk out to the
nest to conduct our
research, but often this rock is also an island
Standing on the edge of this Bald Eagle nest to check on the contents (one
of the two eggs
is barely visible inside the inner nest bowl)
June 8 - one of the adults back on its nest following our visit
View from the canoe beside a Bald Eagle nest on the Smallwood Reservoir,
June 8
One of the resident adults flying by just after the inspection - they
were not aggressive
June 20 - the mosquitoes have emerged in numbers at last - this
collection of mosquitoes on my
knee were but a small fraction of the over 200 on my legs at that moment
June 21 - Black-backed Woodpeckers are common to abundant in some old
burns
See the nest?
How about now?
June 23 - This Tennessee Warbler nest was noticed only because the
incubating adult flushed
from the ground as we approached; notice how it is nicely tucked under a
mossy overhang (more
apparent in the previous photo) to provide protection from rain, as well
as additional concealment
