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Info Line # 506-384-6397 (384-NEWS)
It’s final call for tonight’s, Tuesday,
November 19 Nature Moncton meeting at 7:00 PM at Mapleton Rotary Lodge as has
been announced the past few days. All details are at www.naturemoncton.com under Upcoming
Events. The delivery of Black-oil Sunflower seed will not happen tonight
due to farmer Mike Dickinson being delayed getting all his crops harvested with
wet weather but sunflower was gathered earlier but not bagged as yet.
** The AMERICAN
CROW [Corneille d'Amérique] winter roosting behaviour is well underway, with
very large numbers of crows gathering to roost together in an area of the City
at dusk, and getting up in the early morning to forage. Daryl Doucet was up at
6:30 AM to get to work early Sunday. It was still dark, and cutting through the
parking lot at Marshlands Auto Parts to go the back way to the Superstore area,
he was suddenly aware that Crows were roosting in the hundreds - if not thousands
- on the ground in the rear parking lot, the grass around it, and all over the
roofs of the buildings. They would begrudgingly hop or fly out of the way with
a few horn blasts, but they normally will not leave a roost area unless they
are quite disturbed, as they don’t give up favoured places easily.
** It is
quite surprising what the new water management area off St. James in Sackville
has attracted bird-wise. Waterfowl and shorebirds seem to both quite like it. Kathy
Popma saw two DOWITCHERS in the central island area there on Sunday, November
17th. It is certainly late for SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS [Bécassin roux] to be
there, and we strongly suspect these are LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS [Bécassin à long bec] given the late date.
It is difficult to tell by the plumage this time of year, but it is easy to
distinguish them from SHORT-BILL DOWITCHERS if you hear their ‘peet’ call,
which is quite different from the Short-billed Dowitcher. Kathy took a documentary photo which is
attached. Louise Nichols photographed a dowitcher at the same site over three
weeks ago, on October 25th. A
Long-billed Dowitcher was suspected then, but again there was no vocalization
heard to clinch it.
Nelson Poirier,
Nature Moncton
DOWITCHERS (SUSUPECT LONG-BILLED). NOV 17, 2019. KATHY POPMA
DOWITCHER SP. OCT. 25, 2019. LOUISE NICHOLS
DOWITCHER SP. OCT. 25, 2019. LOUISE NICHOLS
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