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MONCTON INFORMATION LINE, September 8,
2020 (Tuesday)
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** Jane
LeBlanc’s adult male RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD [colibri roux] returned to her St.
Martin’s yard on Monday and was seen by lots
of visitors from 8:00 a.m. to 6:45 p.m. and no-one left without getting an
audience! Jane got some wonderful photos that are attached. What a coincidence
for such a rare visitor to be so cooperative on a holiday!
**
Annegret Lamure got an interesting photo of two dozen COMMON MERGANSERS [Grand Harle] being quite ignored by a MALLARD DUCK [Canard colvert].
Annegret also got a photo of a raptor that caused somewhat of a commotion with
small birds that frequent the tree in the photo. They would approach from
behind and land on the highest branches. The raptor appears to be a juvenile SHARP-SHINNED HAWK.
** Anna
Tucker reports there are still RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRDS [Colibri à gorge rubis] coming to
the beautiful floral display in front of her residence in Church Court, on Church Street in Moncton. She notes they particularly like PHLOX and CONEFLOWERS.
From all the reports these past few weeks, I am going to have blooming Coneflowers
in my own yard next season at this time. The migrating hummers also have a
real attraction to JEWELWEED, a.k.a. TOUCH-ME-NOT this time of year when it is
growing and blooming in the wild.
** The
juvenile PLOVERS are moving in; Aldo Dorio got a few photos of 3 juvenile BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS [Pluvier argenté] at Hay
Island on Monday. It is that time when it would be easy to confuse juvenile
Black-Bellied Plovers and the much less commonly seen AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER [Pluvier bronzé]. One
photo shows a juvenile Black-Bellied Plover and a juvenile SEMIPALMATED PLOVER [Pluvier semipalmé]
side-by-side that shows the size differential of the larger Black-Bellied
Plover.
Nelson Poirier,
Nature Moncton
RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD. SEPT. 7, 2020. JANE LEBLANC
RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD. SEPT. 7, 2020. JANE LEBLANC
RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD. SEPT. 7, 2020. JANE LEBLANC
RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD. SEPT. 7, 2020. JANE LEBLANC
RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD. SEPT 7, 2020. ANNA TUCKER
RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD. SEPT 7, 2020. ANNA TUCKER
CHURCH COURT. SEPT 7, 2020. ANNA TUCKER
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER (JUVENILE). SEPT 7, 2020. ALDO DORIO
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER (JUVENILE). SEPT 7, 2020. ALDO DORIO
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS (JUVENILE). SEPT 7, 2020. ALDO DORIO
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER (JUVENILE) AND SEMIPALMATED PLOVER (JUVENILE). SEPT 7, 2020. ALDO DORIO
SHARP-SHINNED HAWK. SEPT 7, 2020. ANNEGRET LAMURE
MALLARD DUCK IGNORING COMMON MERGANSERS. SEPT 7, 2020. ANNEGRET LAMURE
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