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** Phil Riebel was placing carcasses from Striped Bass fishing in a wooded area on the Renous River and he placed a trail camera there to see what was showing interest. A sow BLACK BEAR [Ours noir] and her cubs claimed the area until everything was cleaned. It must have been a very welcome nutritional find for this family.

** Brian Stone did a round of Tucker St. Ducks Unlimited impoundment, Highland Park in Salisbury and Bell Marsh on Wednesday. At Tucker St. he observed SPOTTED SANDPIPER [Chevalier grivelé], an AMERICAN BITTERN [Butor d'Amérique] did its effective camouflage trick to suddenly fly up in front of him having been undetected, a SWAMP SPARROW [Bruant des marais] posed briefly, a female WOOD DUCK [Canard branchu] was tucked away into the grasses, TREE SWALLOWS [Hirondelle bicolore] were tending to their nest boxes, and many, very large BULLFROG [Ouaouaron] tadpoles were noted.

At Highland Park in Salisbury the CEDAR WAXWINGS [Jaseur d'Amérique] were swooping down from the treetops gleaning insects.

At Bell Marsh he photographed a real variety of subjects including both genders of AMERICAN REDSTART [Paruline flamboyante] to show the contrast in plumage, BLUE-WINGED TEAL [Sarcelle à ailes bleues], CANADA GEESE [Bernaches du Canada] with goslings, GRAY CATBIRD [Moqueur chat], MUSKRAT [Rat musqué], PIED-BILLED GREBES [Grèbe à bec bigarré], RED-EYED VIREO [Viréo aux yeux rouges], both genders of RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD [Carouge à épaulettes] however a female Red-winged Blackbird nabbed a dragonfly as Brian was about to photograph it being his first New Brunswick dragonfly of the season. Also a YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER [Paruline à croupion jaune] showed her conservative plumage compared to the male kin, and the YELLOW POND LILY is in pleasant bloom now.