**The seasonal ritual of Crows [Corneille] establishing night
roosts in the city is underway. Marlene Hickman comments on driving along
Trinity Drive passing the Costco location on Friday evening to note what
suggested to be hundreds of Crows flying over, looking for their night roost.
Marlene comments it brought back reminders of a scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s
movie The Birds.
She noted their erratic flight pattern. They will choose certain sites within
the city to spend the nights in huge groups. One huge group in recent years has
chosen an area near the former Future Shop location, now Best Buy, and I’ve seen
crowds of people gathering in the parking lot watching the group assembling
themselves at dusk.
Anna Tucker shares
a few photos taken at the Tantramar Wetlands site adjacent the high school and
across from the Sackville Waterfowl Park to remind us it is a nice site to
include on visits to the SWP.
**It’s Nature Moncton meeting night this coming Tuesday evening,
November 17th.
Our guest speaker will be Tony Diamond on changes in wildlife in the Bay of
Fundy. Tony is an excellent and knowledgeable speaker and will have some very
updated information to share; it promises to be a don’t-miss presentation on the
life and times of the famous Bay in our midst. The announcement is
attached.
This is also the meeting when New Brunswick farmer Mike Dickinson
arrives with some of his season’s Sunflower [Tourne-soleil] crop for sale, again
at $15 per bag as it has remained for many years. For all those who have ordered
bags, be there early to pick it up. For any further last-minute orders, phone
Dale Gaskin at 734-2497.
Tony
Diamond and the changes in bird live in and around the Bay of
Fundy
For
the last 20 years Tony Diamond has been privileged to be involved with a variety
of studies of birds up and down the Bay of Fundy. In addition to being one of
the most respected professional ornithologists of our province he has fostered
the love of birds and the knowledge of our avifauna in a myriad of students over
his several decades as a professor at UNB. Based on his wealth of experience
Tony will try to summarize for us, the major changes he has seen in that time in
and around the waters of the bay, illustrated with some examples of case studies
ranging from sandpipers to seabirds and songbirds.
This
is definitively one presentation you don’t want to miss!
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
AMERICAN WIGEON DUCK PAIR.NOV 12, 2015.ANNA TUCKER
MALLARD DUCK PAIR.NOV 12, 2015.ANNA TUCKER
SUNSET.NOV 13, 2015.ANNA TUCKER
