Hullett Provincial Wildlife Area

Hullett Provincial Wildlife Area is a major wetland habitat approximately 25 kms east of Bayfield.  It consists of 2200 hectares of mixed terrain of which almost 40% is open water, marsh or swamp and provides a habitat for resident and migrant birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians and plants.  Throughout the area are several different walking trails and an extensive dyke system.  

There isn’t any winter maintenance done on the trails and they clearly hadn’t seen much pedestrian traffic recently, so walking wasn’t easy and I didn’t get all that far, but the little bit I did see had me enthralled and I will definitely be going back again!  It was generally cloudy, but occasionally there were bursts of beautiful sunshine, making for a lovely couple of hours.

This tree is definitely a favourite home for many.

On a return visit I definitely have to walk this trail!

Red and grey squirrels eat pine cones and leave characteristic ‘cores’ and piles of stripped scales under conifer trees.

It looked like winter caught many of these young beech trees by surprise with some of their leaves still on the branches.