**We’ve not heard from Doreen Rossiter’s bellwether Alma feeder
yard much of late. She comments that 21 Pigeons [Pigeon] have forced her to use
hanging feeders only, and not using any ground-spread seed, which has really cut
down her patron list to a small group of expected species. However, a pleasant
new visitor on Friday morning was a male NORTHERN CARDINAL [Cardinal rouge].
Doreen comments on her group of CHIPMUNKS [Suisse] that have carried off almost
25 pounds of cracked corn put out in an area for them but are slowing down with
the cooler weather. Doreen has a large HIGH BUSH-CRANBERRY [Viorne trilobée]
bush in her yard. She wondered why the bush was stripped of berries before
winter birds had a crack at them last year. This year she knows what happened,
as she saw her Chipmunk troop carry every berry away while they were still
green. She also comments it seems only Crows [Corneille] and Ravens [Grand
Corbeau] are harvesting the Mountain Ash [Sorbier des oiseaux] berries near her
yard, not seeing Robins [Merle d'Amérique] working them as
yet.
**Clarence Cormier comments on spotting a male RUBY-CROWNED
KINGLET [Roitelet à couronne rubis] in his Grande Digue yard on Friday. This
species is probably moving south at the moment, but is a hardy species, and the
odd one does show up in winter.
**The advance guard of SNOW BUNTINGS [Plectrophane des neiges]
must be en route: Aldo Dorio photographed a lone Snow Bunting at Hay Island Park
on Friday.
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
SNOW BUNTING.OCT 23, 2015.ALDO DORIO
