NATURE MONCTON INFORMATION LINE, November 22, 2017
(Wednesday)
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**A very big thank you to Jim Wilson for coming to the
Nature Moncton meeting on Tuesday evening to share his incredible knowledge of
the TURKEY VULTURE and document its self introduction into NB, right from the
first nest documented to the behaviour of the bird today in NB, to the point
some are overwintering. It was a fascinating account and suspect no one
listening to Jim's presentation will look at the turkey vulture and not recall
some of Jim's comments.
**The second half of the meeting which is now devoted
only to member activities, no business, went well. Two small group photos were
shown by members and a lot of interactive discussion was spurned by the show and
tell table that featured a very fresh recently raptor cleaned pheasant skeleton,
discussion on a wood duck box that was adopted by Dan Hicks who will be
erecting it and reporting on it. A discussion of a ready to assemble and
assembled swallow box for the Nature Moncton Swallow Box Project, petrified
wood, NB crayfish samples and dragonfly exuvia. The show and table will become a
regular feature of the second half of the meeting so start saving or thinking of
things for the December meeting table as well as photos to share with the
group.
**It's been a bad few days for photo contributions to
the BlogSpot but Brian Stone came through from Perth, Ontario. Brian has been
seeing little of interest for the first part of his visit but the heavens opened
up on Tuesday. He was advised of a lake, McGowan Lake, near where he is staying
that regularly has TRUMPETER SWANS at this time. He got there on Tuesday to
only find one but got great photos of it. This bird was nearly extirpated until
captive programs reintroduced it. The odd one visits NB and birders
are on the watch.
Brian also came across some tracks in the fresh snow
that suggested TURKEY to him so followed them to find a flock of turkeys in a
farmers field and get photos to share. The wild turkey is now in very
sustainable numbers in Ontario and there is a designated hunting season to make
them a wily bird so Brian's photos are not close.
Turkeys are moving into NB mostly from crossing the
Maine border, however the Dept. of Natural Resources has concerns about how
welcome they are but the turkeys may make that decision on their own.
Our NB turkey population at this point may be mixed with
domestic origin or domestics gone feral in some cases.
TRUMPETER SWAN. NOV. 21, 2017. BRIAN STONE
TRUMPETER SWAN. NOV. 21, 2017. BRIAN STONE
TRUMPETER SWAN. NOV. 21, 2017. BRIAN STONE
TURKEY TRACKS. NOV. 21, 2017. BRIAN STONE
WILD TURKEYS . NOV. 21, 2017. BRIAN STONE
WILD TURKEYS . NOV. 21, 2017. BRIAN STONE
WILD TURKEYS . NOV. 21, 2017. BRIAN STONE
