Nature Moncton Nature News: Aug 18 2018

Nature Moncton Information Line – 18 August, 2018 (Saturday)

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**Krista Doyle sends a few nice photos of the sun rising as seen from Lewis Mountain on Friday morning. That scene sure will be very different today, Saturday, in the heavy rain.

**Aldo Dorio got a photo of a young of the year MAGNOLIA WARBLER [Paruline à tête cendrée]. All the fledging birds and moulting adults at the moment can be challenging from photos.

**Brian Stone got several fledged birds in Perth, Ontario on Thursday, to include an AMERICAN ROBIN [Merle d'Amérique], BROWN THRASHER [Moqueur roux], EASTERN PHOEBE [Moucherolle phébi], and GRAY CATBIRD [Moqueur chat]. Note that all have that thickened area at the commissure of the beak that recently-fledged birds show, that will soon disappear. Brian also got a photo of a dark morph GRAY SQUIRREL [Écureuil gris] that I understand are more commonly seen in Ontario than in New Brunswick, but we do indeed have some dark morph individuals. He also got an EASTERN TAILED BLUE BUTTERFLY [Bleu porte-queue de l'est]. This Butterfly is seen in New Brunswick mostly in the southwest area, such as Charlotte County. The closely related WESTERN TAILED BLUE [Bleu porte-queue de l'Ouest] is found in Northern New Brunswick, Gaspé, southeastern Ontario, and then jumps into western Canada. He also got a nice photo of a male MONARCH BUTTERFLY [Monarque]. Note the dark spot on each hindwing to indicate it is a male. A third Butterfly was the COMMON RINGLET [Satyre fauve]; however, our Ontario friends are not as fortunate as New Brunswick to host its kin, the MARITIME RINGLET BUTTERFLY [Satyre fauve des Maritimes]. Brian also got a distant photo of a RED-SHOULDERED HAWK [Buse à épaulettes] to nicely show the tail band arrangement and signature pale crescent at the base of the primary wing feathers. As Brian comments, a trip to Perth is not complete without photographing a GRAY TREEFROG [Rainette versicolore], and that sure happened on Friday night, when one very cooperatively attached to a living room window, to get excellent views to show the sucker feet, that white spot rimmed with black just below the eye, yellow under-axillary area, and dorsal markings. Hard to get a Gray Treefrog more cooperative than that! We have Gray Treefrogs in New Brunswick at several sites, but Hyla Park in Fredericton is one of the best spots to see and hear them.

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