Nature Moncton Nature News: July 15 2019

NATURE MONCTON INFORMATION LINE, July 15, 2019 (Monday)

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** Dave Christie did a shorebird check on Sunday morning at high tide on the Mary’s Point beach and saw 8 shorebirds. 7 of them appeared to be peeps and there was one adult SEMIPALMATED PLOVER [Pluvier semipalmé]. Lighting did not allow certain identification of the peeps but general profile suggested at least two were SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS [Bécasseau semipalmé] and a few more seemed small enough to be LEAST SANDPIPERS [Bécasseau minuscule].

** David and Anita Cannon continue to have salamanders and newts visit their outdoor swimming pool. On Sunday morning a Red Eft stage of the EASTERN NEWT [Triton vert] appeared. The Red Eft stage spends up to three years on land after hatching from the egg laid by the adult that lives in water. The specimen in David’s excellent photo may be in its later time on land and about to return to a water-living state.

They also found an ant nest in a 6 by 6 hemlock block torn apart by something that appeared to leave no trace of what it was, but a BLACK BEAR [Ours noir] would have to be on the rule-off list.

** Rhéal Vienneau saw a male MONARCH [Monarque] butterfly nectaring on his Dieppe MILKWEED [asclépiade] patch on Sunday, but when checking more closely also spotted a spider which is quite possibly waiting for Monarch butterfly activity as well!

** Jean-Paul LeBlanc shares some very anxious looking nestling TREE SWALLOWS [Hirondelle bicolore] nestlings being fed last week. This family has now successfully fledged.

** Aldo Dorio got a portrait of a COMMON TERN [Sterne pierregarin] at Hay Island on Sunday, nicely showing its plumage features.

** Brian Stone shares some parting photos from his Perth, Ontario visit to include the butterflies LITTLE WOOD-SATYR [Petit satyre des bois], EASTERN TAILED BLUE [Bleu porte-queue de l’Est], NORTHERN PEARLY EYE [Satyre perlé] and DUNN SKIPPER [Hespérie rurale]. Dragonflies included a COMMON WHITE-TAIL [La Lydienne] and a TWELVE-SPOTTED SKIMMER [Libellule gracieuse]. A photo of HONEY BEES [abeille à miel] nicely shows their elongated, torpedo-shaped body versus the rounded, stouter body of BUMBLEBEES [bourdon].

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