During our three night stay at Killbear Provincial Park in 2015, we spotted wildlife throughout the park and at our campsite.

This little Eastern Chipmunk frequently circled our campsite looking for crumbs or free handouts.

Every day we would spot the chipmunk testing to see how closely it could get to us and to check to make sure we didn’t drop anything tasty.

In among the leaf litter we found an American Toad.  I always find it amazing how many different colours toads can come in.

Just up the trail from the Visitor Centre we had an adorable discovery. Up in a cedar tree was a North American porcupine resting, or napping in a tree.

We had a few different encounters with White-tailed deer throughout the park. While hiking on the Twin Points Trail we heard sounds out in the forest and there she was foraging and barely paying any attention to us.

We quietly watched her, with Maya laying down beside us, until she walked across the trail and out of sight. What an amazing experience!

This little white moth was resting on a small branch in the shadows.

The park had made some bee houses and had them cable-tied to trees along the trail. Something we could all do in our yards.

Just outside of the park we came across this American Beech tree. These trees produce nuts that are an essential food for black bears in the fall. Although they prefer to eat on the ground, black bears will climb to a tree’s canopy to break off branches or shake the nuts off the branches. We didn’t spot a ‘bear’s nest’ of branches at the bottom of this tree but we did see the tell-tale signs of bear activity in the past with the bear claw scars in the tree’s bark.