This is not a real trail, we just went and hiked around this area just south of ottawa by rideau road. Found out about this place from a guided nature walk done couple of years ago and at the time the guide had shown the group a very rare plant in the area, the skunk cabbage. Couldn't find it this time but as you can see, saw lots of other things and the fiddlehead ferns in particular made it all worthwhile!

 
road & quarry

wild strawberry

 
violets

it was one of the first really 'green' days this spring

caterpillars... eventually will be butterflies

spring is in the air

 
somebody else has been here recently

plant

 
bellwort

bloodroot

 
bloodroot... the juice in the bloodroot is an orangy-red colour

possibly a rose twisted stalk (a.k.a. rosybells)

plant

 
left: baltimore oriole; right: king fly catcher?

 
left: king fly catcher?; right: hospital medivac

big red mushrooms... they look almost magical

 
taking a break and watching the water come out of a natural spring (vernal stream)

colt's foot

 
two diffent ferns... the left one is not edible, the one on the right is
(so unless you know how to tell which are the good ones, don't go picking and eating them)

a field full of fiddleheads... although these ones are too mature for eating

garlic leek... we collected some for a salad

 
wild ginger... which has a ground flower as seen on the right
mmmm... more free food

a bug reasting on the petal of a trout lily

a red trilllium