Snapping Turtle (Chelydra serpentina)

This is one of the largest freshwater turtle in Canada. This turtle can live up to 40 years.
The top surface of the tail has a series of large, triangular plates, giving the snapping turtle an appearance like some of the great dinosaurs.
They have long necks, powerful jaws and can give profound bites.

Marsh Wren (Cistothorus palustris)

During the mating season, the male builds 5 to 6 unfinished nests constituted of grasses, cattails, and sedges woven together with an entrance at the side. The female selects one nest and adds a lining to it
or simply built another one.

Baby Woodchuck

By the time their eyes open, the baby woodchuck can crawl around by themselves and emerge from the burrow. The growth is so fast as they
weigh 2 pounds at eight weeks. The young feed on all types of vegetation.

Magnolia Warbler

The tail pattern of this bird is distinctive, a large white patch in black-tipped
tail. The male as conspicuous black band across the upper breast, with heavy black streaks on the sides.

American Porcupine

How the female gives birth to his baby full of spines ?
The mother deliver in a big contraction which expels him immediately.
He arrives wrapped well in a membraneous bag which will be torn by
the mother as soon as she will have got her breath back.

Bloodroot

The name come from his leaves and his root. If you break a small piece of the leave, you will see a red drop. It is a toxic red latex who discourages the herbivorous.

Spring Peeper

The typical mating call of the male peeper can be heard to more than
1 kilometer.
Field researchers have calculated that a single male repeats his call about 4,500 times during one night on the breeding season.

American Woodcock

This bird is one of our earliest returning migrants. As early as March, males begin the spectacular courtship flight by leaping from the ground and ascending in a widening spiral to about 300 feets, where he circles while singing and then begins his descent, zigzagging like a falling leaf.

Do you can find the American Woodcock in its perfect camouflage ?

Barred Owl

The principal prey of this owl are meadow voles, squirrels, birds, amphibians and reptiles.

The small preys are swallowed whole and the biggest are ripped.

The bird cleans his beak against a big branch

Spring snow !

This grey squirrel seems to be a little confused by this snow of March 21st, first day of the spring !