NATURE MONCTON NATURE NEWS
January 20, 2025
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**Mother Nature has given us a few days in a row with weather
not conducive to being outside observing nature, so few reports this morning.
There should be more out-the-window activity today around birdfeeders with our
first significant snowfall of the season with beautiful sunshine to return on
its heels.
**Shannon Inman found another well-preserved bird’s nest
that fell from a tree. It is relatively small with a 3 in. outside diameter.
The bowl is lined with a uniform type of grass/small twigs. It is not Pine
needles as it may appear.
Comments/possibilities as to the past season's owner
would be very welcomed.
**The Nature Moncton January Meeting will take place
tomorrow night, Tuesday, January 21. The details are below, but this
presentation on tracks, scat, and skulls is one that will give much more
information to folks present at the Mapleton Lodge (rather than virtually) as a
portion of it will be hands-on.
The first half hour will be easily shared virtually, but
the hands-
on portion may be harder for the virtual audience to
actively
participate in. We encourage people, if possible, to be
present at the lodge.
**Nature Moncton January Meeting
January 21, 2025, 7:00 PM
Mapleton Rotary Lodge
Presenter: Caitlyn Robert
Now that January has arrived, the onset of snow will give
us great opportunity to check out what wildlife signs are left behind in the
form of those telltale tracks and scat that cause us to speculate on who’s been
there and whodunit.
Caitlyn Robert, Program Coordinator for Nature NB, has many
tips to share which will help us learn more about how to read these cryptic
wildlife clues. In addition, Caitlyn is
skilled at skull identification and will bring lots of examples to illustrate
what ID features to look for when we come across skulls in the wild.
Originally from Quebec, Caitlyn has always been
fascinated by wildlife. Having studied Environmental Biology at McGill, she has
worked as a butterfly garden guide in Costa Rica and Ontario, as a swallow
bander and shorebird mist netter for the Canadian Wildlife Service in NB, and
as a wild bird rehabber and raptor educator at the Vermont Institute of Natural
Science. Eager to return to Canada and
eyeing living in New Brunswick since her summer with the CWS, she jumped on the
chance to work with Nature NB where she can use her expertise and passion for
the environment to get folks of all ages outside and excited about nature!
Caitlyn will be giving this presentation live, but anyone
anywhere is invited to join in via Zoom at the link below:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81738262894?pwd=iXZCgKbhMjep0OahoVjnzZ571pvqmo.1
All are welcome, Nature Moncton member or not.
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
