NATURE
MONCTON INFORMATION LINE, September 15,
2020 (Tuesday)
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Info Line # 506-384-6397 (384-NEWS)
** Gordon
Rattray made a trip to Gray Brook Marsh on Monday and found it teeming with
birds. The duck population was 200+, with the majority MALLARD [Canard colvert] and BLACK [Canard
noir] DUCKS but with
several others mixed in. He set up his camera at the top end, where many mud
flats were exposed and got some great photos of various ducks and shorebirds
that are attached. A BELTED KINGFISHER [Martin-pêcheur d'Amérique] was
present and a GREAT BLUE HERON
[Grand Héron] dropped
by as he was putting his camera in the car.
** Louise
Nichols got a nature interaction on her trail camera in a wooded area near
their Aulac home with four short video clips. It shows a SNOWSHOE HARE [Lièvre d’Amérique] being
watched by some glowing eyes that turns out to be a BOBCAT [Lynx roux]. In one
frame, if the sound is turned up, Snowshoe Hare vocalizing can be heard, to
suggest it either got a major scare or became Bobcat prey. Take a look at the
action at the links below.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5f5ge8pizfalepc/Louise%20Nickols%20-%20Hare%20and%20Bobcat%2001.AVI?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/sok0xf5xhjfea24/Louise%20Nickols%20-%20Hare%20and%20Bobcat%2002.AVI?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/b4mcinzb9zyxoej/Louise%20Nickols%20-%20Hare%20and%20Bobcat%2003.AVI?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/eru0y90bwjw79ys/Louise%20Nickols%20-%20Hare%20and%20Bobcat%2004.AVI?dl=0
** Stella
LeBlanc got some nice photos of a juvenile EASTERN PHOEBE [Moucherolle phébi] in their
Bouctouche yard. You can still see pin feathers around the head area, some
fluffy white natal down feathers, and a quite-yellow breast area that suggest a
young-of-the-year bird. This must have been from a second or possibly a third
nesting of the season as the Eastern Phoebe is one of our first FLYCATCHERS to
arrive in the spring and get an early start.
**Georges
Brun is almost certain
that the attached photo is a Black-Crowned Night Heron. It was low in the
Petitcodiac River just on the backside of Chateau Moncton on Monday. He tried
everything in the book to get a good image but too dark and river conditions
not adequate for time of day! The bird was probably on its migratory route
south from the nesting colony near Lameque. It is a great time to watch for this
species passing through.
**Brian
Stone found a small mushroom growing in one of their potted plants Tuesday
morning. It came up fast, just in the last two days. It's just 3.5 cm. today.
It appears to be the WOOLY-STALKED COPRINUS (Coprinus lagopus) and got nice attached photos.
** Several
of us visited a burn-over Mike Plourde had first alerted us to, on the South Cains
River Road near Blackville, to get an audience with the numerous BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKERS [Pic à dos noir] that had
assembled there. Pam Watters and Phil Riebel visited on September 11th
and noted a particular mushroom growing there that was new to most of us. The
rest of us that visited the site obviously spent too much time looking up and
did not notice this mushroom growing quite prolifically. Pam Watters found one
that matched it in her mushroom guide and it is now agreed that she was spot on
and it was CRUSTLIKE CUP (Rhizina Undulada) [Rhizine ondulée]. There seems to
be few if any reports of this in New Brunswick, but probably it has been
present in the burn-over areas it prefers, and has been over-looked. Phil got
some excellent photos from different angles and are attached today. Specimens
are being saved as the New Brunswick Museum reports it has no collections of
this species in its herbarium. The guide suggests this mushroom species grows
the year after a burn-over. These
specimens did not read that guide as this burn took place in June of 2020.
Nelson Poirier,
Nature Moncton
