Tyrrell/Rush Lakes
Last Review/Updated: May 10, 2002
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Tyrrell Lake is well known for its trout, and a fisheries access point is situated on the northwest corner of the 384-hectare lake. The adjacent 160 hectares of marsh, including Rush Lake, constitute a staging area for waterfowl, particularly snow geese and tundra swans. Yellow-headed blackbirds, red-winged blackbirds and black-crowned night-herons nest here. In the winter, the marshes provide cover for gray partridges, ring-necked pheasants and white-tailed deer.
Habitat development has increased waterfowl and shorebird populations at this site. American avocets, common snipe, Canada geese, northern pintails, canvasbacks, California and ring-billed gulls and double-crested cormorants are frequently observed in this wetland complex.
Trout may be seen rising to take insects from the surface of lakes, ponds and streams throughout Alberta, particularly in the late afternnoon and evening during the summer.
