Nature Moncton Nature News: Aug 18 2015

** Carmella Melanson got some very interesting photos of a CASPIAN TERN [Sterne caspienne] at Petit-cap, very possibly the same one Roger LeBlanc reported recently. Carmella got an excellent flight shot, as well as one with the Caspian Tern beside two COMMON TERNS [Sterne pierregarin] and a RING-BILLED GULL [Goéland à bec cerclé] to show size comparisons with this large tern species.

** Gabriel Gallant got a photo of a SPRING PEEPER [Rainette crucifère] without the signature markings; however, the sucker footpads show well. John Gilan comments that he had seen one before with this uniform orange colouration lacking the markings. The specimen Gabriel photographed was very small, the size of the end of a pinkie finger.

** Brian Stone got a few photos of a TWELVE-SPOTTED TIGER BEETLE on Sunday. Dwayne Sabine comments it is found on a wide variety of bare-earth habitats from interior logging roads to gravel bars on streams to coastal sand beaches. They are very fast movers when they need to be. Brian also got a nice photo of a Barn Swallow

** George Brun's photos of the YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER [Paruline à croupion jaune] fledgling were acciden tally not added yesterday. They are attached today.

** Gart Bishop and Elizabeth Mills have been coordinating a project at the Connell Memorial Herbarium in Fredericton for some time now, and a session is coming up tomorrow -- Wednesday August 19th -- at the herbarium. Anyone with botany interests or those who would wish to gain a botany interest are welcome to join the group sessions. The notice reads as follows

Have a pressed plant you'd like to identify?

Want to learn how to use various wild flower guides or floras?

Join fellow plant enthusiasts on Aug 19 at the Connell Herbarium in

Fredericton in room 13 of the Bailey Building at UNB -- beginners and

experts welcome. No costs involved. For further information contact

Elizabeth Mills -- emills52@gmail.com ,

Gart Bishop -- gartali@nbnet.nb.ca

We will be meeting on the 3rd WEDNESDAY of each month from 11:00 -

3:00. Here are the dates of our planned sessions for 2015 :

, Aug.19. Sept. 16, Oct. 21, Nov.18, Dec16

Just in case you are interested http://unbherbarium.ca/

is the herbarium website and database, where you can research