NATURE
MONCTON INFORMATION LINE, February 12, 2019 (Tuesday)
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** The Salisbury Naturalist group invites anyone to
join them at their February meeting scheduled for tonight, Tuesday, February 12th
at 7:00 at the Salisbury Parks and Leisure Office which is across from the JMA
Armstrong High School. The write-up for
the speaker, Cheyanne Currie on the Nature Trust of New Brunswick is attached
below.
Salisbury
Naturalists Presentation
Tuesday
February 12, 2019 @ 7 pm at the Salisbury Parks & Leisure Office
Cheyenne Currie, Engagement Coordinator
at the Nature Trust of New Brunswick, will be joining the Salisbury Naturalists
to discuss the importance of land conservation in our province. Established in 1987, the Nature Trust of New
Brunswick is a charitable land conservation organization that is responsible
for conserving over 7000 acres in more than 50 beautiful and diverse nature
preserves.
Cheyenne’s presentation will focus on
the importance of the Acadian forest, why this forest type is endangered and
how New Brunswickers can contribute to conservation efforts through the Nature
Trust’s Landowner Stewardship program.
If you are unable to attend the session and would like to learn more
about the Nature Trust and environmental stewardship, feel free to contact
Cheyenne at cheyenne.currie@ntnb.org
or visit the Nature Trust website (http://www.naturetrust.nb.ca).
** The Nature Moncton Gull Workshop and Field Trip
scheduled for this coming Saturday, February 16th, has been
postponed due to impending weather forecasts which could lead to poor
conditions at the landfill site. A
rescheduled date for March 2nd is now proposed. An announcement will go out nearer to the
rescheduled date. To repeat, this
Saturday’s Gull Workshop is postponed.
** Gordon Rattray continues to have two BROWN CREEPERS [Grimpereau
brun] as regular daily patrons to his homemade peanut
butter feeder at his Weldon yard. He
took photos of them together to look for any indication of them being a pair
which is suggestive. Gender difference
is inconclusive and guides do not indicate any gender differential. Gordon also came across a flock of approximately
50 COMMON
REDPOLLS [Sizerin flammé] at the Grey
Brook Marsh area last Saturday in a feeding frenzy on the seeds in the catkins
of White Birch.
** Mac Wilmot found some PUSSY WILLOW buds showing
their hairy white winter covering after the bud scale had fallen off. This bud is not in flower yet; however, if
the branch is put into water inside the house, it will indeed burst into
flower. In the Pussy Willow, male and
female reproductive catkins are on different shrubs. If a male, it will burst into a yellow spray
from which yellow pollen will fall; if a female shrub, it will open into a
green spray which in nature will accept male pollen to form a seed
cluster.
Mac also reports Dale Gaskin saw his shadow on
Groundhog Day, so all is well and downhill from here – well, at least in Dawson
Settlement!
** Elaine Gallant reports her Parlee Beach feeder
yard is active and becoming more so. The
PINE
SISKIN [Tarin des pins] and COMMON REDPOLL [Sizerin
flammé] numbers are swelling, and she suspects 8 different
woodpeckers are coming, one of those being a NORTHERN FLICKER [Pic flamboyant]. However, the star of the show has been at
least one FLYING
SQUIRREL [Grand polatouche] that comes very
late at night. She saw it on Sunday
night at midnight munching on a suet block in the announced -25 °C wind chill temperature, to show the hardiness
of the Northern Flying Squirrel. There’s
also a Southern Flying Squirrel to the south of us. Elaine suspects her patrons use a wooded area
near her where a tentative plan for a 600 site camp ground is to be located
which could change things a lot for her feeder yard.
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Nelson Poirier,
Nature Moncton
BROWN CREEPERS. FEB 8,2019. GORDON RATTRAY
COMMON REDPOLL. FEB 8,2019. GORDON RATTRAY
PUSSY WILLOW BUDS EXPOSED. FEB 11, 2019. MAC WILMOT
