Adventures for Wilderness – Bunchberry Birds and Butterflies, July 4, 2025
July 10, 2026
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Text and photos by Lindsey Wallis
The mosquitos were thick, but the butterflies were plentiful on our Adventure with Nick Carter to Bunchberry Meadows, just West of Edmonton. The property, co-owned and managed by the Nature Conservancy of Canada and the Edmonton Area Land Trust protects a diverse forest, including jack pine, birch and aspen.
We were able to enjoy a diversity of butterflies, from fritillaries and swallowtails to diminutive blues. The flowers were also putting on a show, as were nesting wrens and numerous other birds, including red-eyed vireo, Tennessee warblers and more.
