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Saturday 8 December 2018

Dec 8 2018

NATURE MONCTON INFORMATION LINE, 8 December 2018 (Saturday)

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Edited by: Nelson Poirier nelsonpoirier435@gmail.com
Transcript by: Catherine Clements
Info Line #: 506-384-6397 (384-NEWS)

Jane LeBlanc had a visit from a lone COMMON REDPOLL to her
St. Martin’s feeder yard on Saturday morning to get a nice photo to show its distinct
raspberry coloured beret and sharply forked tail. It was in company with
many BLACK-CAPPED CHICKADDES and RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES.
We should be expecting more redpolls to be dropping by feeder yards
as the Birch catkin crop diminishes.

**The cold nights can lead to some very unique designs from Jack Frost. Shawn Cormier captured a beautiful such design on his home window on Friday morning. Shawn’s photo rather parallels a branch complete with midrib and slim leaves.

**The Nature Moncton activities committee met on Friday afternoon to make plans for upcoming meetings, presentations, field trips, workshops, and projects. Lots of ideas from the committee and members’ suggestions were discussed, and tentative plans made. Much of these plans, once in place, will be on the website (with its new webmaster) over the next month.

**The December meeting is coming up next Tuesday night, December 11th, with more on the main presentation on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday’s editions. It was decided to continue the idea of themes for the second half of the meeting. The theme for the second half of this coming Tuesday’s meeting will be bird feeders, and what members are getting to their feeder yards. Bring along photos, lists of birds you’re getting and what the favourite food is, feeder ideas, or anything else dealing with bird feeding. Don’t forget items for the “show and tell table” to demonstrate feeders you have built or ones that you have purchased and like. Favourite food items should be on the agenda as well.

**It’s also time to be thinking of the January meeting, which is members’ night, which will be 10-20 minute presentations by members on any subject that they choose on any nature experience. It’s time to be getting that ready now for presentation in January. The whole meeting in January will be devoted to members’ presentations, so there will be no theme for the second half. However, the theme for the second half of the meeting in February will be tracks, scat, and sign, so start getting photos and samples now. Scat samples should be handled with plastic gloves or an inverted plastic grocery bag. For tracks and trails make sure to measure the stride, that is to say the distance from the front of one track to the front of the next.


Nelson Poirier,
Nature Moncton


COMMON REDPOLL. DEC 8, 2018. JANE LeBLANC

FROST NOV 07,2018 .SHAWN CORMIER