NATURE
MONCTON INFORMATION LINE, Sept. 29, 2020 (Tuesday)
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**Judy Stockdale has noted
objects on Long Beach on the Fundy Trail Parkway on several occasions and
submits a photo, but now a collection of one is needed to hopefully identify
what these objects are or the origin of them.
A photo of one is attached. With
the dramatic Fundy tides, this could be washed-up sea vegetation, washed-up
land vegetation, or even some type of fishing gear. We would like to answer the question as to
what these are no matter how mundane they may be or possibly not. There are many New Brunswick naturalists who
visit the Fundy Parkway now and hopefully someone will collect a sample, if it
has not been done already, and have the mystery objects identified. There are some things the curiosity of
naturalists, need to know!
**Anita and David Cannon took a walk along the John
Howard trail at Irishtown Nature Park on Sunday. They observed a GREATER YELLOWLEGS to get a nice photo, and walked the recently burnt out part of that
trail. You can see where the boardwalk has been taken up, to (perhaps) be replaced. This burn over area is very worth watching for Black-backed Woodpeckers and mushrooms specific to burned over habitat as well as wood boring beetles that move in.
**Robyn Short got a nice
photo of a clump of the BRACELET CORT MUSHROOM (Cortinarius armillatus) on
September 27th at Killarney Lake Park in Fredericton. This is one of the more easily recognized Cortinarius
species where the universal veil leaves red bands on the stalk, the bulbous
base shows nicely as well. This is a
relatively common Cortinarius in New Brunswick and some guides consider it
edible, but not choice. I prefer not to
use corts as edibles as too many are toxic, but only one or possibly two are
deadly. Note the connotation between toxic and deadly. Toxic indicates it may wish you were dead for a few hours whereas deadly means it. Thanks to Bev Schneider for sending Robyn’s
photo.
**Anna Tucker got a photo of
AUTUMN MEADOWHAWK DRAGONFLIES [Libellules d'alouette des prés d'automne] in a
mating wheel on Sunday. Note the brown
legs and reddish pseudostigma markings on the wings to help identify this late
flying meadowhawk species from other similar ones.
**Aldo Dorio photographed a
young-of-the-year GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL [Goéland marin] enjoying a crab lunch on Hay Island on
Monday as well as a juvenile AMERICAN ROBIN [Merle d'Amérique]. A COMMON LOON [Plongeon
huard] was just off the coast
to give a documentary photo. This
species often stays at fresh water ponds until nearer ice-up, then heads out
for pelagic over-wintering where there is open water, not necessarily migrating
that far.
nelsonpoirier435@gmail.com
Nelson Poirier,
Nature Moncton
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