I got up early (4 am!) and drove to the Carden Alvar, a natural grassland east of Lake Simcoe. I had planned to meet up with a birding party from Guelph but our paths never crossed. So I spent the day enjoying the beautiful landscape, full of Prairie Smoke wildflowers, and looking for interesting birds such as the Kingbird, the Bobolink and the Savannah Sparrow... a new bird for me.
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| Eastern Kingbird |
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| Prairie Smoke |
In the afternoon I visited an old friend Ari Giverts who lives nearby and took him for a drive through the alvar. An alvar is a special type of prairie grassland, with thin soils on a limestone bedrock, and is quite rare in the world. A 3-D cross-view image of particularly lovely meadow on Alvar Road is below.
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