Village Squire, 1978-08, Page 26expressions. Mutiny was an ever -smould-
ering problem among the French troops, a
fact well known to the New Englanders.
This is the unseen side of the Louisbourg
coin. It would be unduly distressing, even
ghoulish, to depict such scenes of misery
and death in stark reality but if such names
as Pepperrell, Shirley or Warren come to
mind, such scenes can h v.,,ualized and a
few seconds of realization and sympathy
awarded to a long forgotten soldier.
Further information can be obtained by
contacting the Superintendent, Fortress of
Louisbourg, P.O. Box 160, Louisbourg,
Nova Scotia, Canada or telephone (902)
733-2280.
KOUCHIBOUGUAC
FOR THE BIRD
BY
CLAUDE R. LEMIEUX
When one considers there are slightly
more than 500 varieties of birds in Canada
and 200 of them live in or visit
Kouchiboug:3c National Park, in New
Brunswick, it can safely be said the place is
for the birds.
Whether you fancy podicipedidae,
phalacrocoracidae or threshkiornithidae,
their representatives frequent the park. Of
course, they don't all line up at the same
time for you to identify and capture on film,
but any bird -watcher worth his salt will
return home with several additions for his
celluloid aviary.
The 241 km2 (93 -square -mile) park
includes forest, sand dunes, marshland,
bogs, swamps and 26 km (16 milts) of
beaches and saltwater lagoons. It is located
on New Brunswick Highway 11 and was
established in 1969. It's right on the Gulf of
St. Lawrence, 222 km (138 miles) from the
Quebec border at Matapedia and 72 km (45
miles) north of Moncton.
There are 150 tent and trailer sites, a
supervised beach, nature trails, picnic
tables, two outdoor theatres, an interpret-
ation centre and a canteen.
The park is on an important north -south
migratory bird flyway which explains why
so many varieties of birds .frequent it.
Some can be learned from their names.
Th - Flycatcher, of course, catches flies; the
herring gull eats herring and other fish; the
morning dove sounds sad and the ruddy
turnstone turns stones to find his food. The
chimney swift is a sooty bird that often
nests in chimneys, the catbird mews much
like a cat and the killdeer's cry sounds like
"kill -dee." On the other hand, the
oldsquaw can be very young, the cowbird
doesn't give milk and the ovenbird is not a
turkey.
Birds from around the world stop at
Kouchibouguac. Included among these are
the Arctic tern, the Tennessee warbler, the
Lapland longspur, the Savannah sparrow,
the Philadelphia vireo and the Caspian
tern. Birdwatching can be a colorful
pastime since Kouchibouguac birds come
in a wide variety of colors or combinations
of colors. You need color film to catch the
red -eyed vireo, blue jay, green -winged
teal, common goldeneye, scarlet tanager,
indigo bunting, olive -sided flycatcher,
brown creeper, yellow-rumped warbler,
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ruby -crowned kinglet and purple finch.
The birds are not alone in Kouchibougu-
ac; they share their domain with both land
and sea animals. On land there are moose,
deer, black bear, bobcat, red fox, beaver,
otter and other smaller animals in the
woods away from the beach. In the sea,
bass, flounder, smelt, trout and cod
abound with succulent lobster. crab and
clams.
People are welcome too and during the
warm, sunny days of summer they flock to
the beach--Kouchibouguac has one of the
finest sand beaches on the Atlantic coast.
Kouchibouguac is not an isolated national
park. It straddles a main highway, to the
delight of visitors who prefer a good motel
to a camping experience. There are several
just south of the park at St -Louis -de -Kent
and Richibucto or to the north in the
Chatham -Newcastle area.
Some vacationers fly to Moncton, rent a
car and visit other New Brunswick beauty
spots besides Kouchibouguac.
For more information on Canada as a
travel destination. contact the Canadian
Government Office of Tourism. Ottawa,
Canada. K I A OH6.
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