A good nights sleep and a rather pathetic hotel breakfast but we were ready for another hike. Because I had such trouble with the hills the previous day, and it was still hot and humid, we just did a short one.
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We parked and started walking at the same parking stop as the previous day
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but in this direction the trail went around an old quarry that had been planted with native plants and grasses.
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Mourning Cloak Butterfly
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Range:
Mourning Cloaks are found across Canada and as far north as the tundra.
They are one of the few species of butterfly whose range extends into
Europe and Asia.
Habitat:
Mourning Cloaks can be found in a number of habitats including shorelines, forests and woodlands, fields, gardens and parks.
Diet:
Adults – While Mourning Cloak butterflies do forage on flowers for
nectar, they generally prefer tree sap, such as maple, poplar, oak and
birch. They are a species of butterfly that ‘mudpuddles’, which means
they get minerals from damp sand, manure, compost as well as rotting
fruit and other moist organic matter.
Caterpillars - Mourning
Cloak larvae feed on a variety of trees such as elms, many willows,
hackberries, Paper Birch and trees in the Populus genus such as Trembling Aspen and cottonwoods. From Canadian Wildlife Federation website.
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A little further along was the view from Humber Heights
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over the Humber River valley. Still hot and hazy.
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Red Trillium in seed according Nic's wildflower app.
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White Coral Mushrooms
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Home to many.
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I know I said that there should be more benches but I don't envy whoever carried this cement one in.
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Around a meadow, past a pond,
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and over a creek.
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A quick look on the internet and
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I wasn't able to identify these.
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Up a hill and a quick scurry across a very busy Hwy 9 and we were done.
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Just under 4km took us a couple of hours. Because we stayed in Orangeville, we started a little earlier than usual and I was able to drive home and make it to sailing that evening.
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