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Info Line # 506-384-6397 (384-NEWS)
** Louise Nichols is again getting more
mammals to her trail camera. The most recent one appears to be a WEASEL [Belette].
The tail seems long for the more common Short-tailed Weasel so if weasel is
correct it is probably the less common, in this area, Long-tailed Weasel. A
Marten cannot be ruled out but size suggests Weasel and Martens are usually in
trees and are much less commonly seen in this area. Brian Stone took a few still
screenshots out of the video to see it in still view. The video can be seen at
the link below.
Louise joined Todd Watts at the Hawk
Watch site at Greenlaw Mountain near Saint Andrews on Tuesday. There was a
significant flight of BROAD-WINGED HAWKS [Petite Buse] but no photos as the
birds were very high or far away and as Louise comments that as a volunteer she
was to concentrate on counting.
**Yvette Richard caught some striking
photos of the sun as it rose in the east and set in the west from her Cocagne home on Wednesday which she felt seemed a bit smoky.
**Marguerite Winsor was attracted to
the same scenario from her Salisbury home this morning, Thursday morning to
again get a striking photo.
** Brian Stone checked out the milkweed
patches on the Gorge Rd. ramp area at the Trans-Canada Highway on Wednesday
afternoon. There was not too much action there now, but a nice CICADA [Cigale]
exuvia was found on the underside of a milkweed leaf. Also a BEAVER [Castor]
family has established a dam across Hall’s Creek at the Gorge Rd. No beaver
made a showing but they surely have been working the night shift.
Brian took note of the fall fruiting body of
the YELLOW POND LILY (Nuphar variegata) recently. It is probably something we
don’t often take note of but are quite striking. Brian got a distant photo of
the lily patch in a pond at the Wilson/Bell Marsh and a close up of the red,
fall fruiting bodies.
Nelson Poirier,
Nature Moncton
YELLOW POND-LILY GROUP ( Nuphar variegata) . SEPT. 11, 2020, BRIAN STONE
