We visited the Parc again in the last week of August. There is some overlap between the two August PhotoStories.
A new arrival at Parc Omega are Prairie Dogs. They are in an area that you can walk through and get quite close to them. They have a very loud whistle - but they declined to do it when I had my video recording on.
The Przewalski horses are much more comfortable being outside their primary enclosure. They now have access to the very large field the buffalo use at times. It is quite apparent, that despite the "do not feed the horses" signs, they are being feed carrots as they will approach cars and stick their heads in looking for carrots.
There are two moose enclosures. Tico, a moose acquired a few years ago when he was quite young and a friend have the former muskox area which has a large open shelter where they spend much of their time. It is quite hard to see them back in the shadows. There are three moose in another wooded enclosures, they too can be hard to find deep in the woods. The magic of image editing brings them out....
Up at the farm, some of the animals were in more photogenic places/poses than in other visits
The wolf cubs have grown quite a bit, even since the last visit three weeks ago
The caribou, in their drive-through enclosure, are obviously being fed carrots despite "do not feed" signs. Their fancy antlers come very close to getting in the car window
The caribou share their enclosure with some young silver foxes. The foxes usually stay well back in the woods, but this time one was out in the open.
Beavers are not normally out in the bright sunshine at noon hour, but one was swimming back and forth between the lodge and a spot where the Parc puts out branches for it. I guess it was checking to see if new ones were available. There are three beaver kits, but they didn't come out.
One of the white-tailed deer fawns has learned to ask for carrots from passing cars. Mum was out keeping an eye on things
Some of the elk were cooling off/avoiding the flies in some of the ponds. The geese and ducks seemed content to share their water with them.
During the first half of the visit, there seemed to be far fewer elk and deer around than normal. One fallow deer was up on the rocks resting and we spotted a male fallow deer with a facial deformation - we had not seen him before.
Many of the antlers have shed the velvet, but one fallow deer was just in the last throes of losing his velvet.
The caribou, in their new drive-through enclosure are obviously being fed carrots, again despite the signs saying not to.
The caribou are sharing their enclosure with some young silver foxes. The foxes have been impossible to find, but one was out on this visit. The caribou in the the photo below still had all of its velvet on the antlers.
Two cinnamon bears and one of the black bears were strolling about in their enclosures. Only the black bear was in a photo worthy spot.
The wild boars seem to have young piglets at anytime of the year. There were two very young twins, plus a set of triplets in one spot.
The lake trout seem to be getting larger every visit!!
People don't normally go to Parc Omega to see flowers with tiny bees on them, caterpillars and/or frogs, but all those things are there and catch our eyes. The caterpillar was a hickory tussock moth caterpillar which can give you a painful rash if you touch it.
Wild turkeys and great blue herons put in an appearance
And who could pass up some mushrooms and fungus ?
