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Info Line # 506-384-6397 (384-NEWS)
** Germaine Leger spotted 6 SNOW GEESE
[Oie des neiges] flying over Shediac Bay on Wednesday morning. There have been
other, single SNOW GOOSE [Oie des neiges] observations in the past days.
Numbers must be starting to build up in their Quebec migratory corridor north.
I often wonder why we don’t see more groups that wander east of that corridor
into New Brunswick. It sure is possible as I recall in approximately 1980 a
large flock of 1500 plus Snow Geese staged in the marsh by the area where
Turtle Creek dumps into the Petitcodiac River. It was a beautiful sight. I have
seen them in good numbers just across the Restigouche River on the Quebec side
and I know the folks in the Campbellton area see them regularly on the New
Brunswick side of the river.
** Louise Nichols paid a visit to the
White Birch Rd. impoundment near Sackville on Wednesday to find it still quite
quiet and still firmly frozen over. She saw an adult BALD EAGLE [Pygargue à
tête blanche] in a nest in a pine tree that had been occupied last year. She
suspected that it may be incubating eggs, and she got a very distant photo. She
got a nice photo of a WINTER STONEFLY traveling over the snow. This is the time
of the year that this Stonefly can sometimes be in high numbers moving about on
ice covered areas or snow areas near a water course.
Jane LeBlanc is seeing lots of spring
arrivals in the St. Martins area. Notable were WHITE-THROATED SPARROW and
PURPLE FINCH. RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH and HAIY WOODPECKER seemed to be moving about
more.
** Pat and I headed down into the
Albert Co. area as far as New Horton in Wednesday afternoon’s sunshine in the
hopes of seeing Woodcocks on the southern exposure roadside areas. None were
seen but I expect that there were some in the area. Some alder swales had only
patchy snow so I suspect that they may have been in those favoured areas. I
expected to see a few Turkey Vultures riding updrafts but none were seen. We
saw very few AMERICAN ROBINS [Merle d'Amérique] or BLACKBIRDS in the many open
field areas but it looked like the whole Albert Co. population of blackbirds
was in John Inman’s yard. There were lots of CANADA GEESE [Bernaches du Canada]
in the fields but I just got the feeling that spring activity was yet to come.
It was uplifting to see those beautiful
spring cultivars springing up near warmer foundations and I’m sure they will be
a welcome sight for those very early emerging Andrena Bee species.
Nelson Poirier,
Nature Moncton
CROCUS. MARCH 24, 2020. NELSON POIRIER
BALD EAGLE ON NEST. MARCH 25, 2020. LOUISE NICHOLS
WINTER STONE FLY. MARCH 25, 2020. LOUISE NICHOLS
WHITE-THROATED SPARROW. MAR. 25, 2020. JANE LEBLANC
PURPLE FINCH (MALE). MAR. 25, 2020. JANE LEBLANC
RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH. MAR. 25, 2020. JANE LEBLANC
HAIRY WOODPECKER (FEMALE). MAR. 25, 2020. JANE LEBLANC
