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Mossbank Weather
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Mossbank, SK Canada
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26°C
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Wind Chill:
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27°C
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Humidity:
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57%
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Old Wives Lake Nature Area
Come experience the breathtaking serenity of Old Wives Lake. This newly developed nature area, set along the south shore of Old Wives Lake, has a 2.4 km walking trail, a look out deck, gazebo and picnic areas.
The combination of abundant wet lands and the vicinity of Old Wives Lake and Lake of the Rivers makes the Mossbank district a bird watcher’s paradise! On the right are pictures recently taken of a few of the amazing birds in the Mossbank District. Old Wives Lake is a Federal Migratory Bird Sanctuary and an important breeding and moulting area for both dabbling and diving ducks, and small numbers of Canada Geese.
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Baby Owl
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Species of ducks that breed near the Lake include Mallard, Gadwall, Pintail,Wigeon, Canvasback, Redhead Lesser Scaup and Ruddy Duck.The Lake is also a spring and fall staging area that attracts large concentrations of ducks and lesser numbers of Canada, White-fronted and Snow Geese and Tundra Swans. |
Avocet
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The Lake contains the Isle of Bays, which is isolated enough to provide protective nesting habitat for the White Pelican, Black-crowned Night and Great Blue herons, Double-crested Cormorant, Western Grebe, California and Ring-billed gulls and the Common Tern. |
Upland Sandpiper
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A variety of shorebirds are common to the Lake. Commonly breeding species are American Avocet, Marbled Godwit, Killdeer and Willet. Suspected breeders include Spotted and Upland sandpipers, Long-billed Curlew, Wilson’s Phalarope, Common Snipe and the endangered Piping Plover. |
Sanderlings
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Common visitants are Black-bellied and Semipalmated plovers, Greater and Lesser yellowlegs, Hudsonian Godwit, Ruddy Turnstone, Red Knot, Sanderling, Red-necked Phalarope, Short-billed Dowitcher, Dunlin, and Semipalmated, Least, White-rumped, Baird’s, Pectoral and Stilt sandpipers.
Other birds known or believed to nest in the area are Eastern and Western kingbirds; Barn Swallow; Sprague’s Pipit; Marsh Wren; Yellow-throated and Yellow warblers; Red-winged, Yellow-headed and Brewer’s blackbirds.
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Avocet
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The Brown-headed Cowbird; Western Meadowlark; Chestnut collared Longspur, Lark Bunting; Clay-coloured, Vesper, Savannah, Baird’s, Le Conte’s and Song sparrows; Northern Harrier, Swainson’s Hawk, the threatened Ferruginous Hawk, Grey Partridge and Sharp-tailed Grouse can also be seen at Old Wives Lake.
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Snowy Egret
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