Nature Moncton Nature News: June 27 2023

NATURE MONCTON NATURE NEWS

June 27, 2023

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Proofreading courtesy of Louise Nichols at nicholsl@eastlink.ca

**Georges Brun got distant documentary photos of 2 Peregrine Falcons on the ‘A’ logo on Assumption Place on Monday and feels fairly confident it is a juvenile fledgling on the lower inner section of the logo (arrowed).

If this is the case, all 3 fledglings from the nest box on the summit of the building are accounted for.

Two of the 3 fledglings are in the care of the Atlantic Wildlife Institute in Cookville, awaiting release at the appropriate time.

**Louise Nichols has been taking close-up photos of smaller creatures around their property. She includes a photo of an Arctic Skipper nectaring on a Blackberry flower, a Hobomok Skipper, a Flesh Fly, a Robber Fly with prey, a Lygus Bug, a Chrysomeloidea Species Beetle (suspected), and an Eastern Forktail Damselfly.

** A Red-headed Woodpecker has entertained Andy Stultz (grandson of Mac Wilmot) for the last week at St. Catherine’s, PEI. He has noted that it is not attracted to the suet but prefers hawking for fresh insects. He comments that it is very active.

(Editor’s note: the Red-headed Woodpecker is a very irregular visitor to the Maritimes! -- especially as the summer adult.)

** Georges Brun photographed a Canadian Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly along Salisbury Road across from the Jones Farm in Upper Coverdale. It lost a part of its forewing, but otherwise, it stayed feeding and allowed itself to be photographed.

(Editor’s note: the wing lesion will not prevent this butterfly from completing its mission.)