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**Bob Blake comments on an interesting
scenario with a yard Magnolia tree. The leaves were all attached when they
suddenly saw a few leaves dropping. Then all the leaves suddenly started
steadily dropping from the tree until it was bare, reminiscent of snow falling.
Bob comments it seems a very different way of dropping leaves all at one
time and within just a few minutes.
Chris Antle Counted 64 Wood Ducks in front of her Maquapit Lake cottage
Tuesday afternoon while doing a bit of deck chair birding .
She hopes they noticed the Ducks Unlimited nesting boxes she just
erected for them.
(Editor’s note..we still have a few more left waiting for potential
landlords and the price is right (free)
**Connie Colpitts comments on the birds
nest Louise Nichols submitted to Tuesday's edition. Connie comments she
has one in her Salisbury yard very similar and felt it was used by an AMERICAN
GOLDFINCH family.
That is not consistent with the
Peterson Birds Nest Guide, but if American goldfinch were seen using a similar
nest, it has to be a rule out.
Am reattaching those nest photos to
still seek other thoughts.
**A bit more on SPRINGTAILS, aka
"snow fleas". After David Cannon's observations, Brian Stone
was able to get a few photos of these tiny pepper sized creatures on Tuesday.
The ones David Cannon had enjoying his pool were black in colour as they
often are when we see them in melting snow, however, Fred Dube had some in his
yard in 2010 that were coral in color. Sandy Hopey he came across the same
color in a stream in Fundy National Park in the summer. That photo is not dated
but these photos are attached today.
Springtails, as said, are harmless and
feed on decaying vegetation but like being in or near water. There are
lots of them about but we only notice them when they gather in these incredible
numbers together.
Brian Stone caught a Solar Halo (22 °) during the pleasant weather
conditions of Tuesday.
**It's the time of year when the adult BLACKLEGGED TICKS are more frequently encountered. Spring and fall are the periods the adults of this potentially problematic species tend to be most commonly encountered.
Nelson Poirier,
Nature Moncton
SPRINGTAILS AKA SNOW FLEAS. OCT. 29, 2019.. BRIAN STONE
SPRINGTAILS AKA SNOW FLEAS. FRED DUBE..FEB 28, 2010
SPRINGTAILS AKA SNOW FLEAS. FRED DUBE..FEB 28, 2010
SPRINGTAILS AKA SNOW FLEAS IN FNP STREAM. SANDY HOPEY
SOLAR HALO (22°). OCT. 29, 2019. BRIAN STONE
BIRD'S NEST . OCT. 28, 2019. LOUISE NICHOLS
BIRD'S NEST . OCT. 28, 2019. LOUISE NICHOLS
