A Morning Walk Around Assiniboine Park

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We are having some mild temperatures (for January) this week, so I had to head out and go for another walk this morning. Assiniboine Park is close and I haven’t walked around there for awhile – so that is where I drove.

After walking through the English Gardens, I decided that maybe I should eat at the Park Cafe before going any further. I stopped for a couple of seconds to get a photo of the ice on the duck pond getting a morning refresh for the ice skaters.

After the wonderful breakfast in the cafe, I headed back into the English Gardens and took a few photos as I walked.

The Black-capped Chickadees will often pose for photos
benches covered in snow around a closed fountain
Another view of the benches & fountain
Paths through the gardens are nicely maintained.
Snow covered benches along the outside of the gardens

Then I crossed the road to walk the trails in the bush and around the little railroad.

Here is the little train station. Unfortunately it has not been running during the summers since COVID 😦
This is a little pond along the way – it is a little frozen now
This White-tailed Deer looks very comfortable in the snow.
This White-tailed Deer had just crossed the path in front of me and was heading into the trees.
A very handsome buck
He even posed so I could zoom in on him

As I rounded a curve in the tracks, I could see 2 more Deer – I zoomed in and snapped a photo since I expected them to move off the path. But they didn’t.

This is a Doe and her young one from last year. Mother is on the right. She is a little bigger.
Young one was a bit nervous and started to move off.
It surprised me how close I got to the Mom
At this point, I am almost beside her. She was abut 5 feet away from me here.
There are 2 trails along the tracks – one on each side of the snow covered train tracks – so she is on one side of the tracks and I am on the other.
As I took one more step, she went into the bush to join her daughter.

I have never been this close to a wild White-tailed Deer before. Even as she walked off, she wasn’t afraid – she just walked away. Obviously, some of the deer spend a lot of time in the park and are very used to people – but this was unusual. I was talking to her the whole time.

Then I finished the loop and headed back to the car.

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