We dry-camped in Mule Deer campground and as I celebrated my birthday I was musing that the last time I spent a birthday in Manning was in about 1979 or 1980. Far too long to have been away from one of our favourite parks!
In the campground we found this little Chipmunk feeding on Saskatoon berries.
On a drive up the Gibson Pass road we found a family of Grouse. Here is one of the three juveniles we photographed.
Later we found yet another adult.
One of our favourite short hikes is 20 Minute Lake. Despite this park being the most visited of all of BC's parks this little lake, located only minutes from Lightening Lake, the busiest area in the park, is often overlooked. Rarely does anyone stop at this little jewel. We found a single, lonely Loon which was very cooperative and gave me over an hour of shooting.
Lastly we had been hearing many woodpeckers but could never see one. Finally I spotted this Black-backed Woodpecker up in a dead pine. Perhaps the Mountain Pine Beetle have created habitat for woodpeckers.
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