Nature Moncton Nature News: Nov 10 2018

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Transcript by: Catherine Clements

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**Doreen Rossiter was very pleased to have a flock of 15+ EVENING GROSBEAKS [Gros-bec errant] arrive to her Alma feeder yard on Friday morning. Doreen comments it’s a long time since she’s had a flock of Evening Grosbeaks visit, only having one or two appear occasionally once or twice a year in recent years. I think I recall it was in the 1980s that Evening Grosbeaks were the more numerous species in many feeder yards. Are they returning?

**NORTHERN CARDINALS [Cardinal rouge] continue to pop up. Marguerite and Bill Winsor had an adult male arrive to their Salisbury yard on Friday morning, returning again in the afternoon. Like so many others, they hope it becomes a regular patron.

**John Massey adds an interesting photo of a conifer stump being recycled into the earth. There are no doubt many many kilometres of mycelial threads through this stump, breaking it down. The fruiting bodies of two of the fungi are showing, being the ORANGE JELLY [Dacrymyces palmé] and the VIOLET-TOOTHED POLYPORE [Tramète du Chêne-Liège].

**Mac Wilmot is still reporting two or three RED-BELLIED WOODPECKERS [Pic à ventre roux] about his Lower Coverdale yard. He spotted a male and female at a suet block on Friday. Both are acting quite shy and not interested in photo ops. Mac attaches a photo of a juvenile BALD EAGLE [Pygargue à tête blanche] monitoring the Petitcodiac River. Mac comments it may not be a great photo, but it’s special as it is taken from his kitchen window! A nice yard bird for sure.

**Aldo Dorio also got a photo of a female NORTHERN CARDINAL [Cardinal rouge] in Tabusintac on Friday. He also got another photo of a WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER [Bécasseau à croupion blanc] at Hay Island. White-rumped Sandpipers are one of the species expected to linger late, but November is indeed getting late.

**It was a double whammy for Brian Stone and I on Friday. We were polishing off some practice using iNaturalist in our sunroom when we looked out to see a male RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER [Pic à ventre roux] enjoying shelled peanuts. This is the first time we have had a visit from a Red-bellied Woodpecker and it returned on Saturday morning to enjoy sunflower chips. Three new yard bird species in as many days is too much excitement for an ole lad to handle! Three NORTHERN CARDINALS [Cardinal rouge], one Red-bellied Woodpecker and one WHITE-BREASTED NUTHATCH [Sittelle à poitrine blanche]. Brian and I made a short late-day trip to Bell Marsh, and were very surprised to come across two female Northern Cardinals on the main path, not far from Bell Street. Northern Cardinals seem to be falling from the sky in the area this past week!

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