The Limerick Forest is near Oxford Station, just south of Kemptville. There is a pine plantation, mixed forest and wetlands. The trail can be buggy in July
One beaver lodge is in easy sight, although I am not sure it is an active lodge
We have visited in late spring and seen lots of waterfowl - ducks, geese and swans. This visit we saw one family of geese and two distant ducks
A swamp swallow was in fine voice
Some of the birds that the Merlin App heard, we didn't see most as they were playing coy.
There were lots of flowers, berries and one orchid having finished blooming. Scroll over for ID
Indian Pipe
European frog's-bit
European frog's-bit
white waterlily
Peace lily
Joe Pye weed
Purple loosestrife
Bladderwort
Black-eyed susan & Queen Anne's lace
Pink Ladyslipper
Clintonia
Clintonia
Indian Cucumber
Not a flower, "just" a plant - Christmas green
Hoverfly in mid-flight
Meadowhawk dragonflies
A mustard white butterfly
You could hear many frogs but only see a few. A bull frog and a leopard frog
I was hoping the bull frogs would make a nice croaking sound, but it wasn't to be
A mole (?) had burrowed his way into the ground on the trail at one point
