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Thursday 24 October 2019

Oct 24 2019


NATURE MONCTON INFORMATION LINE, October 24, 2019 (Thursday)

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** Clarence Cormier is enjoying watching the behavior of 3 WHITE-TAILED DEER [Cerf de Virginie] around his Grande-Digue site. It would appear like one is an adult doe and the second largest seems to suggest that it may be a year old doe that has possibly rejoined its mother from last year with a smaller buck which may be a young of the year. Note the arrow to the developing pedicles that show it is a male. Clarence comments that the largest doe is the leader of the trio and the second, smaller doe seems to eye the young buck closely. They all graze together on wild flowers and grasses and the young buck that acts somewhat playful is very curious about crab apples. It might also be noted that the 2 does are taking on the greyer pelage of winter while the young buck is still retaining its summer brown plumage. They give pleasant moments watching them interact.

** There is another Caledonia Gorge Protected Natural Area photo to share. We have several species of AVENS in New Brunswick, but one characteristic that is an identification clue is the small (dorky!) leaflet in between the larger almost strawberry-like leaves. One almost has to see avens in flower to know what species it is, but for a late October photo it is just “avens”. Also Gart Bishop showed us the identifiable features of 3 WOOD FERNS that were growing within 15 ft. of one another. Unfortunately the camera did not function to show the features of the pinnules on the lower side of the lowest pinna to readily tell the Evergreen Wood Fern, Spinulose Wood Fern and Mountain Wood Fern apart. That opportunity will hopefully present itself before the Spinulose and Mountain Wood Ferns retire their greenery for the winter. Gart did point out a large clumping fern with round fruit dots indicate it is a wood fern in the Dryopteris genus as an attached photo shows.       


Nelson Poirier,
Nature Moncton







WHITE-TAILED DEER. OCT 22, 2019.CLARENCE CORMIER

WHITE-TAILED DEER. OCT 22, 2019.CLARENCE CORMIER

WHITE-TAILED DEER. OCT 22, 2019.CLARENCE CORMIER

AVENS. OCT. 19, 2019. BRIAN STONE
WOOD FERN FRUIT DOTS. OCT. 19, 2019. BRIAN STONE