2025 Trans Taiga trip photographs PartD
The Tanslimit Road has an alternate segment, the Crossover Road, which shortens the trip and connects one segment of the Translimit Road to another. This road was much beter for butterflies, and I spent most of the day, August 15th, collecting here. This photograph shows a portion of the road.
A female Argynnis cybele.
Another view.
A male A. cybele.
A P. faunus.
A Polygonia gracilis. This specimen drove me crazy, as it was aware of me and kept moving ever so slightly so that I could not photograph the ventral surface properly.
A nice creek.
August 16th, I collected along Fushimi Road, just northeast of Hearst, ON. A nice photograph of Nymphalis l-album j-album.
A P. faunus that I spooked off the road onto a pine tree.
A Polygonia progne.
Later that afternoon, I took this photograph on ON 11 looking west.
Nightfall on August 16th along Murky Creek.
The next few photographs show the sunset.
A few moments later.
And later.
A little later.
Later.
Later
And later.
The sun finally set and darkness was soon to follow.
August 19, a Ring Billed Gull, named Peg, on the north shore of Lake Michigan.
Same Gull.
August 20th, a Broad Winged Hawk east of Trout Lake, MI.
A P. progne. Note has the wing patterns blends into the tree bark. P. progne preferentially perches on the side of trees when disturbed, taking advantage of this cryptic coloration.
A few photographs that I forgot to add in sequence. This is a trail of caribou scat. The caribou spend the winter here, and the snow is 10-15 feet deep, so they form trails that they follow daily, covering these with scat, which forms these trails on the road when the snow melts.
Another example of a scat trail.
Looking forward to returning to Quebec in 2026.
This is the end of Part D. Click here for Part C.
The Tanslimit Road has an alternate segment, the Crossover Road, which shortens the trip and connects one segment of the Translimit Road to another. This road was much beter for butterflies, and I spent most of the day, August 15th, collecting here. This photograph shows a portion of the road.
A female Argynnis cybele.
Another view.
A male A. cybele.
A P. faunus.
A Polygonia gracilis. This specimen drove me crazy, as it was aware of me and kept moving ever so slightly so that I could not photograph the ventral surface properly.
A nice creek.
August 16th, I collected along Fushimi Road, just northeast of Hearst, ON. A nice photograph of Nymphalis l-album j-album.
A P. faunus that I spooked off the road onto a pine tree.
A Polygonia progne.
Later that afternoon, I took this photograph on ON 11 looking west.
Nightfall on August 16th along Murky Creek.
The next few photographs show the sunset.
A few moments later.
And later.
A little later.
Later.
Later
And later.
The sun finally set and darkness was soon to follow.
August 19, a Ring Billed Gull, named Peg, on the north shore of Lake Michigan.
Same Gull.
August 20th, a Broad Winged Hawk east of Trout Lake, MI.
A P. progne. Note has the wing patterns blends into the tree bark. P. progne preferentially perches on the side of trees when disturbed, taking advantage of this cryptic coloration.
A few photographs that I forgot to add in sequence. This is a trail of caribou scat. The caribou spend the winter here, and the snow is 10-15 feet deep, so they form trails that they follow daily, covering these with scat, which forms these trails on the road when the snow melts.
Another example of a scat trail.
Looking forward to returning to Quebec in 2026.
This is the end of Part D. Click here for Part C.
