Editor & Proofreader

Editor: Nelson Poirier    Proofreader: Louise Nichols

Monday 25 January 2021

Jan 25 2021

NATURE MONCTON INFORMATION LINE, Jan.25, 2021 (Monday)  

 

Please advise editor at nelsonpoirier435@gmail.com if any errors are noted in wording or photo labeling.

For more information on Nature Moncton, check into the website at
www.naturemoncton.com

Edited by: Nelson Poirier nelsonpoirier435@gmail.com

Transcript by: Susan Richards susan_richards@rogers.com

Info Line # 506-384-6397 (384-NEWS)

To respond by e-mail, please address your message to the information line editor nelsonpoirier435@gmail.com


**The past few days seem to be having droves of COMMON REDPOLLS arriving at bird feeder yards with their roving gourmet menus.

 

**Gordon Rattray had a good day at his Weldon, Albert County feeder yard on Sunday.  His resident BROWN CREEPER [Grimpereau brun] gave some nice photos sharing one with a WHITE-BREASTED NUTHATCH [Sittelle à poitrine blanche]COMMON REDPOLL [Sizerin flammé] also increased in number for Gordon.


**Jane LeBlanc shares photos of 2 of her more colourful male patrons in her St. Martin’s feeder yard to include a bright male EVENING GROSBEAK [Gros-bec errant] that was part of a group of 6, and her colourful male NORTHERN CARDINAL [Cardinal rouge] that is still visiting with its mate.  Note the cardinal is perched on Jane’s Witch Hazel Bush which still appears to be showing late as expected blooms.  Jane also had 30 to 40 COMMON REDPOLLS pay a visit on Sunday.

 

**Yvette Richard has been waiting for redpolls to arrive to her Cocagne yard. They surely arrived convincingly the last few days with a flock of 100 COMMON REDPOLLS arriving and felt her homemade seed-suet blocks were haute cuisine.

 

  ** I noticed on Sunday morning that redpolls were jumping into the puffy snow at the edge of the roof.  They were not picking at the snow for refreshment but were fluffing up and shaking themselves just as they would if they were splashing in water; maybe we could term it a ‘buffle bath’!

 

 nelsonpoirier435@gmail.com

Nelson Poirier,

Nature Moncton

 


BROWN CREEPER. JAN 24 2021. GORDON RATTRAY

BROWN CREEPER AND WHITE BREASTED NUTHATCH. JAN 24 2021. GORDON RATTRAY

NORTHERN CARDINAL(MALE). JAN. 24, 2021. JANE LEBLANC

EVENING GROSBEAK (MALE). JAN.24, 2021. JANE LEBLANC

DOWNY WOODPECKER. JAN 24 2021. GORDON RATTRAY

COMMON REDPOLLS. JAN 24, 2021. YVETTE RICHARD

COMMON REDPOLL. JAN. 24, 2021. JANE LEBLANC

COMMON REDPOLL. JAN 24 2021. GORDON RATTRAY
REDPOLLS SNOW BATHING. JAN. 24, 2021. NELSON POIRIER


AMERICAN GOLDFINCH, PINE SISKIN, AND COMMON REDPOLL GROUP ON LAWN. JAN 24 2021. GORDON RATTRAY