Early morning visits are best. Note that vehicle traffic on the Jack Lake Road can be busy at just about any time of the day but is particularly so on weekends during cottage season with vehicles often traveling at a high rate of speed. The gravel road shoulders are narrow and there is very limited room to pull off and, as such, it is recommended that birders find a place to pull off near the midway point of the bog, allowing oncoming vehicles ample time to see you. 

Birds typical of open peatlands breeding at this site include Wilson’s Snipe, Alder Flycatcher, Hermit Thrush, White-throated Sparrow, Purple Finch, Northern Waterthrush, Nashville and Canada warblers. Notable among the breeding species is Lincoln’s Sparrow, at least one and occasionally two pairs of which breed annually in the more open peatland on the east side of the road.  The bog formerly hosted a pair of Canada Jays which regularly visited the bird feeders at #459 Jack Lake Rd., but they were last recorded in February 2020. In winters with good crops of conifer and alder cones both Red and White-winged Crossbills, Pine Siskins and redpolls may be present. Black-backed Woodpecker has been encountered on at least one occasion at the northeast corner of the bog.

Located on the Jack Lake Road (CR 52) approximately 2 km south of its junction with CR 504, the Jack Lake Road Bog is an extensive tamarack-black spruce-leatherleaf peatland on either side of the road for a little over a half kilometer. While the peatland on the east side of the road is more open, the west side has dense stands of Speckled Alder.  

The peatland on both sides of the road is in private ownership, so do not trespass.