Nature Moncton Nature News: Nov 14 2018

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** A GOLDEN EAGLE [Aigle royal] or ''The''GOLDEN EAGLE [Aigle royal] is back on the Tantramar Marsh. Louise Nichols caught sight of one on Monday morning and was able to get distant photos. Other than for the GOLDEN EAGLE [Aigle royal], Louise found it fairly quiet on the marsh. It is not a great early indication of the small rodent numbers on the marsh.

**Clarence Cormier reports his Grand Dique feeder yard is hosting some welcomed species. On Thursday, November 8^th he had four PINE GROSBEAK [Durbec des sapins] in female plumage appear which is right on schedule for them compared to other years. On November 12^th a flock of fifteen plus BOHEMIAN WAXWING [Jaseur boréal] arrived and they returned on Tuesday. Clarence is also among the lucky EVENING GROSBEAK [Gros-bec errant]hosts when twenty-eight arrived on Tuesday. He now has six AMERICAN TREE SPARROW [Bruant hudsonien] as well as two WHITE-THROATED SPARROW [Bruant à gorge blanche] that continue to stay.

**Ron Steeves forwarded a nice photo of a Giant Ichneuman wasp taken in the summer. This wasp is parasitic on other wood boring wasp larvae. The film that shows inside the curved abdomen is apparently a secretion of the female wasp. Google search and you-tube video shows it forming when ovipositing, so I am assuming this must be a female behaviour.

**Isaie Comeau in Tabusintac is getting some interesting birds at his feeder yard. He is getting a flock of EVENING GROSBEAK [Gros-bec errant], a male NORTHERN CARDINAL [Cardinal rouge] and a FOX SPARROW [Bruant fauve] plus the expected regulars. Aldo Dorio got photos of some of the action at Isaie's feeder yard on Tuesday.

Shawn Cormier sends a photo of an American Crow appearing not amused with Tuesday’s weather.

Brian Stone reports his first isicle of the season! Suspect there may be a few more.

**Some photos of Manitoba Maple bark, samara, and winter buds are attached showing the clinging winter samara. The opposite arrangement of the buds and branches is a characteristic of the maples and ash trees as well. Pine Grosbeaks and Evening Grosbeaks enjoy snapping off the wing and eating the seed of the winter clinging samara.

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