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MONCTON INFORMATION LINE, October 08, 2020 (Thursday)
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Info Line # 506-384-6397 (384-NEWS)
** Marguerite Winsor got a great photo
of a DARK FISHING SPIDER. This is a relatively large spider (with the females
being much larger than the males) and it is capable of a human bite if cornered
but normally runs from humans very promptly. Its bite would be no more severe
than a wasp’s sting, excluding the possibility of a hypersensitivity reaction.
This is a Nursery Web Spider that carries its eggs in a sac until hatched and
then takes care of them for a time which by now has passed and the young are on
their own.
Marguerite has always had a number of
Black Swallowtail Butterfly chrysalids overwinter on her dill patch. The dry
summer has led to poor dill growth and there are no Black Swallowtail
chrysalids to be seen this year.
** Anna Tucker is enjoying her twice yearly
getaway to her favourite room at the Comfort Inn at Truro where she can nature
watch from her window over the marshlands while the traffic races by on the
nearby highway with the wildlife ignoring it. This time she has seen WHITE-TAILED
DEER [Cerf de Virginie] romping and foraging in the marsh, RAPTORS hunting the
marshland, Canada Geese moving, and a close view of a Bald Eagle nest. Although
there is some greenery growing from the nest at the moment it did fledge 2
eaglets this year and 3 last year. This nest looks like an Osprey may have
built it and it was possibly taken over by a Bald Eagle.
** Aldo Dorio got a documentary photo
of a suspected SCAUP off Hay Island on Wednesday. We have not seen many of this
species as yet but expect that will change soon. He also took note of birds
enjoying a bathing session.
** At this time of year a Winter Finch
Forecast is published out of Ontario that we can extrapolate from for the
Maritimes. Take a look at it at the attached link.
Lynda LeClerc’s nephew, Eric LeClerc did the sound
work for a CBC documentary called “Rare Bird Alert”. He sent Lynda the link and
she asked if it could be shared with Nature Moncton people and he said “sure!”
He travelled and met these people while doing the documentary. He enjoyed it very
much. It’s on GEM. You can download a free Gem app to watch it at the
link below. (There is a short ad at the first. Just let it play through)
Nelson Poirier,
Nature Moncton
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