NATURE
MONCTON NATURE NEWS
August 21,
2023
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**This week’s
Wednesday night Nature Moncton walk is written up at the end of this edition.
Maureen Girvan
captured a pleasant photo of the waxing crescent Moon on Sunday night, August 20.
The Moon will be
reaching its first quarter phase on August 24 and will be in the full Moon
phase on August 30.
**Shannon
Inman planted one Anise Hyssop plant last year, and it grew well
and has become a very attractive plant for pollinators such as bees and night-flying
moths. It attracted a Viceroy butterfly on Saturday.
John
was able to get a photo of the Viceroy Butterfly showing it with open and
closed wings.
**Verica
LeBlanc in Miramichi area has been equally as lucky with her coneflower plants
attracting pollinators.
It
has been raining and remains fairly windy in Nelson (near Miramichi) and is not
very favourable to the butterflies. However, Verica did get the Red
Admiral Butterfly which has been there for several days now and is still
present, and a Viceroy Butterfly joined in yesterday. It had to
fight the heavy wind from being toppled but hung around most of the day.
For
several years Verica has been lucky enough to get a Milbert's Tortoiseshell
Butterfly for brief periods of time. It made an appearance again, but she
noticed from the house that a bee was not being very kind to it, landing in the
middle of its open wings. The butterfly did not come back. Verica
went outside, trying to get a better photo, but it did not reappear.
The meeting time at the site will be 6:30 PM
Trevor and Elaine’s 60+ acres of woods, mostly old growth, is
peppered with easy-to-enjoy mowed walking trails.
We will enjoy seeing a couple of Butternut trees, some planted
English Oak, White Oak, and Red Oak, as well some pines and Norway Maple. But
their woods are mainly made up of wild common species of Spruce, Fir, Birch,
and Poplar.
For birds, they are hosting the regulars, as well as
Black-throated Blue and Black-throated Green Warblers, Red-Eyed Vireo, and a
few other birds Trevor has spotted around the Loop.
Trevor and Elaine live in a log home built in Steeves Settlement, #
356, Steeves Settlement Road N.B. E4Z2Y5.
Trevor enjoys having folks visit and walk his trails and looks
forward to our visit.
Steeves Settlement is behind Killams Mills between Petiticodiac
and Salisbury.
Their phone # if lost, or in need of help getting there is 506-756-8267.
Traveling the TCH, take the Havelock exit (#414). You get off to the
right at the Havelock exit, turn right again, then another right at Beckwith Rd
(Kinnear Sett Church is at that corner). Travel up Beckwith Rd.
approximately 5 km to the 3rd road on the right, which is the Steeves
Settlement Rd. They are the first driveway on the right at 356 Steeves
Settlement Rd.
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
