Nature Moncton Nature News: Sept 19 2017

NATURE MONCTON INFORMATION LINE, September 19, 2017 ( Tuesday )

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** The first meeting of the season of Nature Moncton will take place tonight, Tuesday, September 19, at seven pm, at the Mapleton Rotary Lodge with special visitor Kevin Craig to give a presentation on the Black Bear in New Brunswick. The write up is attached below. The second part of the meeting after break will feature short presentations from members on anything in nature that they have observed and are willing to share. Any business was taken care of by the board at a meeting on Monday night to leave the second part of the Tuesday meeting business free.

Nature Moncton September meeting

September 19, 2017 at 7:00 PM

Mapleton Park Rotary Lodge (across from Cabela’s)

The Life and Times of the Black Bear in New Brunswick

Presenter: Kevin Craig

We are blessed in New Brunswick to still have so many wild areas where mammals can share space with us.

The Black Bear is one species that is doing well. We are happy to have Kevin Craig, the top black bear biologist in New Brunswick, agree to give a presentation on this mammal to help us better understand what its behaviour may indicate and just what we can expect the Black Bear to be doing during the four seasons of the year.

Kevin is manager of the Big-game, Furbearers, and Fisheries Section of the Fish and Wildlife Branch, Department of Energy and Resource for New Brunswick and his special interest in the Black Bear over many years ensures that he will provide a wealth of information we all should know about this animal we share our space with.

A don’t miss presentation!

** Roger Leblanc and Mitch and Irene Doucet made a run to Fundy National Park on Monday, with migration in mind. They did find several flocks of warblers, noting twelve different species, with a CANADA WARBLER [Paruline du Canada] being the most special one of the warbler clan. Another special species found was a BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER [Gobemoucheron gris-bleu] in the area between the swimming pool and the brook. It is an excellent time to keep a close eye out for migrants and the odd displaced one.

** David Christie reports that he had a RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD [Colibri à gorge rubis] late visiting on Monday. It did not come to the feeder as is often the case this time of year. It visited Phlox and Honeysuckle blooms. David is also noting a BLUE JAY [Geai bleu] migration getting underway, noting twenty plus Blue Jays flying along the shoreline in a westerly direction.

** Nature Moncton activities chairperson Louise Nichols has sent out an email to all Swallow box participants. Results are coming in and it is looking like the project was very successful for Swallows and was very rewarding to participants. All thanks to Fred Richards for donating his carpentry skills to make this project happen. Lois Budd sends a photo of the action at box no. 20, out of 50.

** Brian Stone took a walk behind Crandall University, off Gorge Rd., on Monday to see what Mother Nature had to photograph there. Included were lots of formed PINE CONE GALLS on Willow, a cooperative PAINTED LADY BUTTERFLY [Belle dame], a photo of the Sun showing the lonely sunspot AR2680, SEDUM plant in bloom, several mushrooms that included one of the SCABER STALK BOLETES, and a suspected KING BOLETE. Lots of BLACK-CAPPED CHICKADEES [Mésange à tête noire] and RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES [Sittelle à poitrine rousse] there, and a juvenile BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER [Paruline à gorge noire].

** I drove by the home pond of the domestic BLACK-NECKED SWANS in Lower Coverdale on Monday. They were very intently watching over their four new cygnets which appear quite young. They happened to be at the end of the pond by route 114 and they cooperated nicely for photographs.

nelson@nb.sympatico.ca

Nelson Poirier,

Nature Moncton