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Photos from TCH#1 near Braintree on 2006-Jul20:

-- Queen-Anne's-lace is regarded as an invasive weed in some places, but here in Manitoba it is a very rare plant, though possibly spreading.  Each umbel is an umbel of umbels, the whole plant being roughly an umbel of umbels of umbels.
-- We encountered a dead Black-bear on the roadside near Wye Rd -- but alas I didn't get a photo (long story).

Photos from Contour on 2006-Jul20:

Photos from BirchRiver-Bridge on PR503 on 2006-Jul20:

Photos from PR308 on 2006-Jul20:

-- There were 3 of these crow-sized owls at this location; the 1st 2 photos are of same owl, the 3rd is another.

Photos from Bog on PR308 on 2006-Jul20:

Photos from gravel-pit near Braintree on 2006-Jul20:
- not "The Cusson" municipal gravel-pit, but the nearby GWWD gravel-pit known as "The Pit"

Photos from gravel-pit near Braintree on 2006-Jul16:
- same species in same location but taken a few days earlier by Doris Ames: