NATURE MONCTON INFORMATION
LINE, January 10, 2018 (Wednesday)
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The white morph juvenile GYRFALCON found by Nora Herbert
on January 08 was still present in the same area in Bouctouche Tuesday, January
09. It was seen a few times in the morning and it made several passes by the
pedestrian bridge in the afternoon chasing pigeons and ducks. It was seen and
photographed by many. It can be seen from the parking lot by Captain Dan's,
which was formerly the Mills processing plant, at the end of Rue du Rivière or a
little farther from the pedestrian bridge itself as well which is parallel to
route 11. As of Wednesday afternoon, it was seen in the same area this morning
but has not returned as of 1:45 pm but many waiting are hopeful it drops back
for a late afternoon refuelling
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**Ray Gauvin shares some moon photos he took on December
06 of the waxing crescent moon. To offer more explanation, this is the ‘waxing
crescent’ phase. When the moon goes past first quarter, being when the moon is
first at half full, it is called the ‘waxing gibbous ‘moon, after being full it
is then called the ‘waning gibbous’ moon, then the third quarter when it is half
full on the other side and then ‘waning crescent’ until it is new. So waxing is
getting fuller and waning is getting less full. The lighted illuminated portion
of the moon is the thin crescent phases is called earth shine as it is reflected
light from the earth that is illuminating it. This extra information courtesy
of Brian Stone and Curt Mason and if you want to understand more h
on earthshine,
Brian suggests the attached website. http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/what-is-earthshine
**Dave Christie reports John Inman had a SAVANNAH
SPARROW arrive to his 225 Mary's Pt. Rd feeder yard on Tuesday. A species that
he had not seen since last fall. Dave suspects it was probably a bird that was
staying over in the Shepody marsh area that got covered over so joined the
sparrow troupe in John's feeder yard.
Also, another comment on CROSSBILLS. Dave comments he
heard two singing crossbills in spruce trees near his home on Tuesday as well as
four seen on the spruce trail on the January 01 Christmas Bird Count in that
area as well some RED CROSSBILL reports. This species seems few and widely
spaced in the area at the moment but Dave expects numbers will build up as
winter progresses.
**This coming Tuesday night, January 16, is Nature
Moncton members night when members and guests will give short 10 to 20 minute
presentations on any subject they choose on nature. A real variety show. If you
have something to share, email President Susan at susand@nbnet.nb.ca and she can line up the
presentations. At the moment I believe there are four scheduled. Louise
Nichols on Shorebird monitoring, Mike Plourde
on trail camera use, Adam Cheeseman on Nature NB projects and Nelson Poirier on
ticks in NB.
I would also encourage folks to visit the Nature
Moncton website under "Upcoming Events" as several write ups on events to come
are now posted with apologies to those who have emailed wondering about future
Nature Moncton activities. The challenges getting them posted seems to have
been corrected.
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
MOON (WAXING CRESCENT) DEC 21, 2018.RAY GAUVIN
MOON (WAXING CRESCENT) DEC 21, 2018.RAY GAUVIN
