NATURE MONCTON INFORMATION LINE, November 29, 2017
(Wednesday)
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**David Christie reports that contractors and Canadian
Wildlife Service staff who were working at the Cape Jourimain National Wildlife
area on Tuesday and saw a WHITE PELICAN fly over in the noon hour time window.
This bird could now appear anywhere, so be on the watch. There have been
sighting reports of a White Pelican on PEI , so is this the same bird or
not?
Dave also reports John Inman had a RUSTY BLACKBIRD
appear at his 225 Mary's Point Rd. feeder yard on Monday and on Tuesday a second
Rusty Blackbird joined it.
**Gary Dupuis once again was able to locate the
SWAINSON'S HAWK on Tuesday and shares a photo of it on a post. Gary comments he
saw it at the end of the Lower West Marsh Rd. which shows on google
maps.
Gary also got a photo of a light morph ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK
on a post.
**David Myles reports he had a BROWN CREEPER visit his
Kingsclear bird feeder yard on Sunday. He had not seen one at his
site since one last winter but suspects a pair is in the area but has only seen
the one the feeder so far.
Brown creepers to a feeder area are always a special
treat!
**Georges Brun has noted a group of 6 BLACK DUCKS that
will gather approximately 30ft downriver from the confluence of Hall’s Creek and
the Petitcodiac River. This group had been coming to the same location since
late August but not there earlier in the summer. Georges got a photo of one
that is leg banded.
**On woodpeckers, Ray Gauvin reports he has had a male
DOWNY WOODPECKER start coming to his Shediac yard.
I also had a female HAIRY WOODPECKER show up Tuesday.
The regular pair of DOWNY woodpeckers were not amused
when the hairy came to the peanut butter feeder beside the downy male and sent
it off. Hope they work it out, there is lots for all of them.
BLACK DUCK WITH BAND NOV 27 2017 GEORGES BRUN
BLACK DUCK WITH BAND NOV 27 2017 GEORGES BRUN
ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK. NOV 28, 2017. GARY DUPUIS
SWAINSON'S HAWK. NOV 28, 2017. GARY DUPUIS
