NATURE
MONCTON INFORMATION LINE, March 05, 2020 (Thursday)
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Edited by: Nelson Poirier nelsonpoirier435@gmail.com
Info Line # 506-384-6397 (384-NEWS)
** It’s another slow day. Mother Nature
seems to be keeping naturalists from doing their thing with bird feeder yards
being very quiet but it may indeed be the calm before the storm with reports of
early birds arriving early. In my own yard the well represented AMERICAN TREE
SPARROWS [Bruant hudsonien], 1 SONG SPARROW [Bruant chanteur] and 1 CHIPPING
SPARROW [Bruant familier] seem to be the only faithful patrons suddenly, with
occasional visits from AMERICAN GOLDFINCH [Chardonneret jaune] that were so
numerous just a few days ago. Some weather later in the week may change all
that a bit.
John Inman reported seeing 2 flocks of
CANADA GEESE had flown past his house toward Shepody Bay. He estimated 70 – 80 birds
in the flock and noted a similar smaller flock once late last week. The RED-WINGED
BLACKBIRDS at John’s 225 Mary’s Point Road feeder yard are now up to 28 with
COMMON GRACKLES at approximately 10.
Dave Christie’s big number of birds on
Tuesday was an extended group of 225 American Robins that flew west past his
Mary’s Point house over a 3 minute period. Some landed briefly, possibly in
search of food but most continued out of sight. It was the largest flock of
robins he had seen during this ‘robin winter’.
** Petitcodiac River Appreciation Day
is now only a month away to take place on April 04 at the Moncton Press Club.
To update on activity, the speaker lineup is now complete and lots of
groundwork is happening over the next few weeks. The tickets have now been
printed by Fred Richards. Tickets are now available online at the Eventbrite
site below. David Cannon and I ordered tickets on Wednesday morning via this
site to check it out and it seemed to work very well. Make sure to print the
ticket if you purchase tickets there for presentation at the the door and as they will go into a
draw. If ordering from a pad, phone, or other device that does not print you
will have to email the response email with ticket from Eventbrite to a device that can access a
printer.
Other sites are also being looked into
for ticket sales. They are now available at St. Paul’s United Church office in
Riverview from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, Monday to Friday. Their address is 404
Cleveland Ave. We expect tickets to be available from the Moncton Press Club,
160 Assumption Blvd, as of Friday night. The Moncton Press Club is open from
2:00 pm to 9:00 pm each day. In the meantime if anyone would like to take
tickets to sell then, send an email to the Information Line editor and we will
arrange pickup/delivery by volunteer runners.
To look over the day’s itinerary go to www.naturemoncton.com and click on “Petitcodiac River
Appreciation Day” for the up to date lineup. I am quoting a message received
from MP Ginette Petitpas-Taylor who wordsmithed the day so very well.
Quoting Ginette
“For millennia, the Petitcodiac
River did as nature intended, draining a vast watershed as it flowed to the Bay
of Fundy. During all that time, the Bay of Fundy did what nature spectacularly
does here, sending some of all that water back upriver with each extraordinary
rising tide. Our First Nations learned to live in harmony with that natural ebb
and flow, as did the European settlers who followed.
Then,
just over a half century ago, we forgot the lessons of our ancestors, and the
river that was so long our lifeblood has been fighting to restore itself to the
natural order ever since. Fortunately, we have learned our lesson and today,
instead of fighting against the river, we are fighting for it.
That's
certainly worth celebrating, and I commend the organizers of this event for doing
just that. On behalf of the Government of Canada, I wish all of you an
enjoyable and enriching day.”
Nelson Poirier,
Nature Moncton
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