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Mud Lake has been called the gem of the west end, a magnet for birds and birders, naturalists and trail runners, photographers and shinny-playing teenagers on its glassy winter ice.
This summer, a black bear settled in, occasionally startling early-morning trail walkers until conservation officers trapped and relocated it. The Britannia Conservation Area — Mud Lake’s formal name — has been home to eagles and ospreys, a big-horned buck, waves of migrating warblers and waterfowl, several families of beavers, minks, snapping turtles and hundreds of other creatures, great and small.
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