April 14 2018

 

 

NATURE MONCTON INFORMATION LINE, April , 2018 ( day )

 

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Edited by: Nelson Poirier nelson@nb.sympatico.ca

Transcript by: Brian Stone bjpstone@gmail.com

Info Line # 506-384-6397 (384-NEWS)

 

** A SANDHILL CRANE [Grue du Canada] has been reported a few days ago. Elaine Gallant relocated this bird on Friday on the Red Bridge Rd. in Scoudouc approximately halfway down, past the farms. It was in a corn field towards the tree line and was by itself.

** A heads up for this coming Tuesday night, April 17, for the April Nature Moncton meeting night at 7:00 pm at the Rotary Lodge across from  the former Cabela's location. The special guest will be Gart Bishop who will speak on the Grand Lake Meadows natural protected area. Gart will show what is present in this unique community to make it a protected area to be preserved in perpetuity. The write up is attached.

** In the second half of the evening Shirley Xu will give a presentation on some birds in China. Shirley and her husband moved to Moncton and became interested in birds after joining Nature Moncton and during a recent return trip to China they found themselves birding and photographing what they saw.

 

Nature Moncton April Meeting

Grand Lake Meadows Natural Protected Area

Date: April 17, 2018 at 7:00 PM

Mapleton Park Rotary Lodge (across from Cabela’s)

Speaker: Gart Bishop

The unique wetlands along the Trans Canada Highway between Jemseg and Upper Gagetown are part of the Grand Lake Meadows. A portion of these wetlands is protected as Grand Lake Protected Natural Area. It is home to a collection of species which are not found elsewhere in the province. Gart Bishop will describe some of these species -- including New Brunswick’s smallest vascular plant -- that make this area so different from other wetlands.

nelson@nb.sympatico.ca

Nelson Poirier,

Nature Moncton