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Tag Archives: Greenbelt
NCC Greenbelt Trail 52
NCC Greenbelt Trail 52 I had been to this area of the Greenbelt before but had never followed Trail #52 along its loop through the woods. The limited parking for the trail is at the corner of Walkley Road and … Continue reading
Posted in Canada Explorer, Ontario, Ottawa, Ottawa Greenbelt Trails
Tagged autumn red, boardwalk, cattails backlit by sunlight, Ceinture de verdure, corn fields, country ski trail, cross country ski, cross country ski trail, gravel roadway, gravel trail, Greenbelt, Greenbelt Trail, hiking trail, mature forest, NCC Greenbelt Trail #52, Ontario, Ottawa, paper birch, polypore, red maple, yellow birch
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Searching for Deer on the Old Quarry Trail, Kanata, Ontario
Searching for Deer on the Old Quarry Trail, Kanata, Ontario Searching is probably not the best word since finding deer along the Old Quarry Trail is almost a certainty on most days. I’ve seen as many as thirty (30) White-Tailed … Continue reading
Posted in Canada Explorer, Old Quarry Trail, Ontario, Ottawa
Tagged 10-point buck, Greenbelt, Kanata, National Capital Commission, NCC, Old Quarry Trail, Ontario, Ottawa, Porcupine, White-Tailed Deer
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Chickadees and More: Sarsaparilla Trail, Ottawa
Chickadees and More: Sarsaparilla Trail, Ottawa Recent rains and high winds have stripped many of the trees of their Autumn colours. That hasn’t stopped people coming out to the Sarsaparilla Trail in Ottawa’s Greenbelt and sticking out their hands for … Continue reading
Posted in Canada Explorer, Ontario, Ottawa, Ottawa Greenbelt Trails, Sarsaparilla Trail
Tagged autumn colours, blue jays, Chickadee feeding out of hand, chickadees, chipmunk, chipmunks, colourful, creatures, fern, Greenbelt, juncos, mallard, mushroom, nuthatches, Ottawa, Ottawa Greenbelt, red squirrels, rock, sarsaparilla, Sarsaparilla Trail, trail covered in leaves, trees, woodpecker
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Trying out the repaired 80-200 f2.8
I haven’t been out on the woodland trails much this summer (soccer injuries, international travel, other family commitments, etc), so when I received my 80-200mm f2.8 back from Nikon’s repair depot, that was all that I needed as a reason … Continue reading
Posted in Canada Explorer, Ontario, Ottawa, Sarsaparilla Trail
Tagged apple trees, beaver pond, Blue Jay, chickadees, chipmunks, Downy Woodpecker, ducks, family commitments, Greenbelt, Greenbelt Trails, Hairy woodpecker, handful of seeds, nature natural surroundings, NCC, Nepean, Nikon 28-200mm f2.8, Nikon 80-200mm f2.8, Nkon camera, Ottaawa Ontario, ottawa ontario, photography, photos, Red Squirrel, Sarsaparilla Trail, soccer injuries, summer soccer, sunflower seeds, walk in the woods, white breasted nuthatch, woodland trail, woodland trails, woodpecker
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Watts Creek Pathway – Ottawa Greenbelt
Watts Creek Pathway – Ottawa Greenbelt – Approximately 6.2 km one way. The Watts Creek Pathway has had some major upgrading in the past couple of years and I hadn’t cycled along it recently so, with rain forecast for tomorrow, … Continue reading
Posted in Canada Explorer, Ontario, Ottawa, Ottawa Greenbelt Trails, Watts Creek Pathway
Tagged cyclists, equestrian centre, grass is always greener on the other side, Greenbelt, heavy rainfalls, horses, National Capital Commission, NCC, Ottawa, Ottawa Greenbelt, photographer, Railway Bridge, railway crossing, travels, walkers, water flow, watts creek, Watts Creek Pathway
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Ottawa Greenbelt Trails – Sarsaparilla Trail
After dropping off my father following our earlier outing to Ashton, Ontario, I decided that a stop at nearby Sarsaparilla Trail might yield some photo opportunities. I rather hoped that I might get some nice shots of the white-breasted nuthatches … Continue reading
Posted in Canada Explorer, Ontario, Ottawa, Ottawa Greenbelt Trails, Sarsaparilla Trail
Tagged Canada Geese, chickadees, Deer, Greenbelt, Hairy woodpecker, mallards, marshland, nuthatches, open water, Ottawa, paper birch, photo opportunities, photographer, sarsaparilla, Sarsaparilla Trail, sentier, Sentier des Salsepareilles, tee shirts, woodpecker
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Feeding The Deer – Old Quarry Trail
Weather was nice today. Above freezing , sun shining and limited wind. A couple of days ago, I had decided to go out on the Beaver Trail with sunflower seeds in my pockets to feed the many Chickadees that frequent … Continue reading
Posted in Canada Explorer, Old Quarry Trail, Ontario, Ottawa, Ottawa Greenbelt Trails
Tagged 55mm lens, apples, black-capped chickadees, carrot, carrots, chickadees, Deer, feeding chickadees, Feeding deer, fingertips, fungs on a tree, Greenbelt, ice, Kanata, manual focus, NCC, Odocoileus virginianus, Old Quarry Trail, Ontario, Ottawa, pine trees, quarry trail, railing, slippery, sunflower seeds, three deer, trail, water, White-Tailed Deer, White-tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus
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Feeding Chickadees on the Beaver Trail
I hadn’t been on the Beaver Trail in the Stony Swamp section of Ottawa’s Greenbelt for quite awhile so decided to take a look around that trail today carrying my Nikon D300 equipped with my vintage Micro-nikkor 1:3.5 f=55mm nippon … Continue reading
Posted in Beaver Trail, Canada Explorer, Home and About, Ontario, Ottawa, Ottawa Greenbelt Trails
Tagged 55mm, beaver trail, black oil, chickadees, chipmunk, Chipmunk Trail, corn, favour, Greenbelt, Greenbelt Trail, manual focus, micro nikkor auto 1:3.5 f=55mm nippon kogaku japan, Nepean, Nippon Kogaku, observation, Ottawa, peanuts, Stony Swamp, sunflower seeds, swamp
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Chickadees and more Chickadees
My brother flew in from Vancouver with his dog, Gilbert, last night for a visit with my father. After we stopped for a bit of lunch, my father suggested that he was up for a bit of a walk to … Continue reading
Posted in Home and About, Ontario, Ottawa, Ottawa Greenbelt Trails, Sarsaparilla Trail
Tagged Bell's Corners, bench, bird in the hand, brother, Chickadee, chickadees, Cockapoo, Greenbelt, Kanata, lunch, nuthatches, Ontario, Ottawa, Sarsaparilla Trail, seeds, smiles, sunflower seeds, Vancouver
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Feeding those Chickadees and Nuthatches again – Sarsaparilla Trail, Ottawa
My cycling partner was in town today so off we went to the Greenbelt Trails in search of Ottawa’s ferocious chickadees that attack the visitors’ hands in search of nourishment. They don’t really attack, but I always tell visitors that! … Continue reading
Posted in Canada Explorer, Home and About, Ontario, Ottawa, Ottawa Greenbelt Trails, Sarsaparilla Trail
Tagged Black-capped Chickadee, chickadees, Greenbelt, Greenbelt Trails, images, Nepean, nourishment, nuthatches, Ontario, Ottawa, photo, photography, photos, picture, Poecile atricapillus, pointed bills, red-breasted nuthatch, sarsaparilla, Sarsaparilla Trail, Sitta canadensis
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