NATURE
MONCTON NATURE NEWS
May 22,
2022 (Sunday)
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**Mac Wilmot has a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker that is truly a multi- instrumentalist. He plays the pot lid, several steel flues, steel roofs and a hollow poplar tree. They hear him all day long! Not quite as gifted as flamin’ Raymond Leger.
Look in on the action at the attached link below:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/yKEUqgrCYchRsGFu7
**In the past few days, Jane and Ed LeBlanc in St. Martins have seen in and around their yard, Black-and-White, Yellow-rumped, Palm, Black-throated Green Warblers, as well as Northern Parula and Common Yellowthroat.
They have had a Gray Catbird at the grape jelly
in their feeder.
**Aldo
Dorio photographed a rather content looking male Northern Flicker
peering out its nest cavity hole at Hay Island on Saturday.
It does
seem the Northern flicker is a species doing very well this year from the calls
and sightings of the species.
** On Friday Brian Stone walked the Tankville Trail to try and find the wrens located by Louise Nichols the day before but he was unsuccessful. He did manage to find and photograph several other interesting subjects including Black-throated Blue Warbler (new for Brian), Nashville Warbler, Blackburnian Warbler, Common Yellowthroat Warbler, Blue-headed Vireo, Red-breasted Nuthatch, and a treetop hopping Broad-winged Hawk.
Rhodora was in full bloom and Clintonia was showing better developed, soon to be blue, berries.
The blackflies and mosquitoes were
heavy and Brian's Picaridin based insect repellent was unable to hold them
back. He may have to go back to Deet until the worst of the little biters are
gone.
**Nelson Poirier continues to put fish offal in a
woods area with trail camera surveillance. The Turkey Vultures have now
exerted their authority over the ravens and crows. A bit of video shows eight
birds in one view and rather suspects actually more have found the booty
outside of the camera’s view. They are getting Nelson very well trained as they
can be seen circling the area shortly after Nelson arrives with a fresh supply.
Even the Coyotes and Black Bears are missing out on
the snacks by waiting until darkness to check out the stash. Take a look at the
action at the video link below:
**Nelson Poirier recently photographed Trailing
Arbutus in bloom noting its pleasant scent as well as Round-lobed
Hepatica. Both these plants have evergreen leaves.
The
Round-lobed Hepatica is not a rare plant in New Brunswick but uncommonly found.
It blooms very early in the season (blooms are pale blue to white) and is a regular at a cedar swamp site near
Sunny Corner along the Miramichi River.
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
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