NATURE MONCTON INFORMATION LINE, Jan.5,
2021 (Tuesday)
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**Many New Brunswick naturalists have
fond memories of spending time with Laurie Murison from guiding Whaling trips
to visiting the Grand Manan Whale and Sea Bird Research Museum and lots
more. It is with great sadness that
Laurie passed away recently. She will be very missed.
**Louise Nichols had a visit from a
nice yard bird on Monday, a first winter NORTHERN SHRIKE [Pie-grièche grise]. Note the chest barring and brownish tone to indicate immaturity
She saw it perched on a Spruce Tree and managed a couple of photos from
the window. It flew towards their pond
and she lost it at that point. Louise did
not see it with prey or chasing prey, but when she went out afterwards, she
noticed BLACK-CAPPED
CHICKADEE [Mésange à tête noire] feathers in the snow, so maybe there
was an altercation.
Just before the snow on Saturday Louise saw the remains of a AMERICAN CROW [Corneille
d'Amérique],
obviously there for quite some time.
Attached are a few photos of the skull.
Wildlife bones get recycled quickly so a good opportunity to see what a
recent crow skull looks like.
**Daryl Doucet got a photo of a subadult
BALD
EAGLE [Pygargue à tête blanche] on Jones Lake on Monday with plumage to
suggest it will be making the final molt to adult plumage soon. The bill is almost completely yellow and head
and tail showing strong white areas. It
had captured a gull or a duck. They are
often seen monitoring Jones Lake for potential prey.
**Clarence Cormier’s Grande Digue
feeder is a magnet for AMERICAN TREE SPARROW [Bruant hudsonien].
On Monday he counted 28 enjoying the scattered mixed seeds and suspects
there could be even more.
**Jane LeBlanc comments that she has
only 1 lone COMMON
REDPOLL [Sizerin flammé]
coming to her very complete St. Martins feeder yard. That is likely to change soon as many feeders
are starting to report high numbers of redpolls suddenly.
**The Nature Moncton Activities
Committee with Louise Nichols as Chairperson has been actively working on
getting presentations of interest for the months ahead, to include
presentations on Seals, Bats and
Canada’s newest National Park, Sable Island.
Take a look at the action under ‘Upcoming Events’ at www.naturemoncton.com.
These will all be virtual but anyone anywhere, is welcome to join in.
nelsonpoirier435@gmail.com
Nelson Poirier,
Nature Moncton
