NATURE MONCTON’S INFORMATION LINE, August 20, 2015 (Thursday)
** Dave Christie comments the warmth of Wednesday evening brought on a
chorus of CRICKETS, the first of this season at Mary’s Point. Dave heard some
earlier, but Wednesday night was prime for a cricket conference that immediately
stopped as cold fog rolled in late in the evening.
The shorebird flocks at Mary’s Point are getting more interesting at the
moment,Dave comments, with more flock activity and PEREGRINE FALCON [Faucon
pèlerin] interaction. Dave comments the flocks roosting at high tide never did
get extremely large this year at that site, with a high of 35,000 recorded one
day earlier in the week. Dave himself has seen flocks of seven to ten thousand
roosting in various spots nearby.
**CEDAR WAXWINGS [Jaseur d’Amérique] are a late season nester and young of
the year are being seen at the moment. Aldo Dorio got a photo of a recently
fledged CEDAR WAXWING on Wednesday. Aldo also got a photo of a WHIMBREL [Courlis
corlieu] at Hay Island Nature Park.
**A correction in the photos of August 8th, a SWALLOW photo is obviously
mislabelled, it should have been a BARN SWALLOW [Hirondelle rustique], not
CLIFF SWALLOW. Thanks to Roger Burrows for pointing out that mislabelled photo.
The Blogspot has been corrected and these corrected photos are attached
today.
**Roger also left a nice comment regarding a photo of a fledgling bird
labelled a suspect NELSON’S SHARP-TAILED SPARROW [Bruant de Nelson] recently.
Roger comments he thought this was more likely a SAVANNAH SPARROW [Bruant des
prés]. Roger pointed out young NELSON’S SPARROWS have a beautiful buffy orange
colour all over when first out of the nest, gradually acquiring brown on the
back as they age.
Nelson Poirier,
Nature Moncton
BARN SWALLOW 02. AUG. 16, 2015. BRIAN STONE
BARN SWALLOW 02. AUG. 16, 2015. BRIAN STONE
CEDAR WAXWING FLEDGLING.AUG 19, 2015.ALDO DORIO
WHIMBREL.AUG 19, 2015.ALDO DORIO
