A Sunny Cold Morning Walk at Fort Whyte Alive

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It has been about a month and a half since I’ve been to Fort Whyte Alive. Although it was a chilly morning with a temperature of -28C and a windchill in the -30’s I decided it was time to head over there. I didn’t stay long though. I only walked the smaller side where the marshes with floating docks were, By then my hands were pretty cold as I had brought the wrong pair of gloves – although the warmer gloves would have had to be removed to snap photos – so maybe I had the right pair – LOL. The floating docks aren’t floating now either as the water is very frozen.

We are on the non-floating dock now, but you can see many tracks off the side of the dock. I stayed on the dock.
Very nicely maintained path through the woods.
Then I saw a White-tailed Deer looking at me.
She is still looking at me.
And Then there were TWO
One of the deer was braver than the other, but I don’t know if they are a Mom and her baby from last year or they are sisters. They seem to be very similar in size.

I left them and then continued my walk.
A very cold sun up there
I passed this tree with a pretty little Redpoll perched. There were more of them, but only one willing to pose for a photo – or maybe just didn’t want to use energy to move.

The Redpoll was very close to the hill that I always climb for a view and on the way down the hill, 2 more (or maybe the same 2) White-tailed Deer met me.

I decided that my hands were too cold to continue the walk, so I headed back to my car to warm up & drive home. I drove through Assiniboine Park on my way home, so tomorrow I have a few photos to show you from that stop.

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