Heading out for my morning walk I had previously noticed the bright orange coloring on young trees among the fallen black spruce trees, these I identified as mountain ash trees. This area of forest by our lane had opened up and the new mountain ash trees were the succession of growth for the black spruce which a lot had toppled after many wet years causing the ground to soften and become sodden unable to support the tall spruce trees which would normally sway in the wind. I have shared some shots of those newly sprouting mountain ash in a previous post but while taking some photos of my garden plot I noticed some bright orange coloring in the forest behind it so I went to investigate.
To my surprise there was a whole new growth of forest happening with young mountain ash trees! The old timers say there use to be an old creek that ran through this area and that is where the mountain ash were now growing by the sodden and mossy which could not longer sustain the spruce trees.
I had planted a few mountain ash trees in the yard by my house and every year the birds come in and strip the berries off it doing an amazing job of spreading the seeds. With the autumn colors these newer bird plantings of mountain ash stood out putting on a lovely display. Have a look...
It was good to see there was some young tamarack trees coming up in this area for some of our big, over 100 year old ones, had succumbed to the sodden ground that had remained wet for too many years.
The tamaracks are one of the few coniferous trees to loose their needles in the fall turning a lovely yellow color which usually comes a little later than the yellow of the poplar trees to carry on the Autumn display.
There was also a young white spruce coming up in this area that looked nice and healthy for it was on a bit of higher and drier ground.
Along the edge of this opening there was a brilliantly colored larger mountain ash tree (the one I had first noticed when I looked into the forest behind the garden plot) so I worked my way around to where it grew and peered up into it's colorful boughs.
JJ wandered into the forest to see what I was doing. I had just passed a spot by the spruce roots where the squirrel had been making his stash.
Shortly after JJ came into the forest an angry squirrel began chattering, giving us heck for coming into his territory!
This is my #WednesdayWalk hosted by 
Also my Amazing Nature Contest October 2020 #1 entry. See details here
The photos were taken with my Canon PowerShot SX60 HS.
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