NATURE MONCTON INFORMATION LINE, Dec.21,
2020 (Monday)
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**Pat Fox and Heather Silliker have a
very unusual plumaged BLACK-CAPPED CHICKADEE [Mésange à tête noire] coming to their near Salisbury feeder
yard that is quite strongly albinistic.
I am assuming the albinistic bird is indeed a Black-capped Chickadee
over a BOREAL
CHICKADEE [Mésange à tête brune] out of default. The key ID features seem to have had a ‘white-out’.
** BLUE JAY [Geai bleu] can be quite antagonistic at times with
other feeder birds but, wonder if they don’t have something out for NORTHERN CARDINAL
[Cardinal rouge].
Krista Doyle got some photos of a Blue Jay in combat with a Northern
Cardinal at her Lewis Mountain yard. We
have a pair of, now regular Northern Cardinals at our Moncton feeder, but the
first day we saw the female appear 2 Blue Jays made a dive for her.
**Susan and Fred Richards have a duo of
RED-WINGED
BLACKBIRD [Carouge à épaulettes] that arrived to their Taylor Village
yard on Sunday. They appear to be
young-of-the-year males. The Sibley
guide points out some first summer males have this prominent white supercilium
apparent in Fred’s photos.
**Louise Nichols and Lynda Leclerc did
a sector of the Moncton Christmas Bird Count on Saturday. Outside of the usually expected birds, it was
nice to be treated to some of the species that are with us this winter. They were able to see both PINE GROSBEAK [Durbec des
sapins]
and EVENING
GROSBEAK [Gros-bec errant] in
addition to a flock of about 16 BOHEMIAN WAXWING [Jaseur boréal].
The best bird of the day was a shy HERMIT THRUSH [Grive solitaire] found in the woods off Crowley Farm Road. It stayed back in the trees and did not come
too close, so no photo.
One of the most interesting parts of the day was their stop at the
McLaughlin Road spot where the CANADA GEESE [Bernache du Canada] like to hang out on account of the
property owners’ generosity with feed.
This was the location where the CACKLING GOOSE [OIE CACKLING] was
discovered among the flock some weeks ago.
They counted 330 Geese in Ron’s back yard but a scan of the Geese did
not yield a Cackling Goose. Ron told
them he had not seen it that day either.
He did tell them however that the Cackling Goose had been there on
Thursday, putting it within the count period for the Moncton Christmas Bird
Count.
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