NATURE MONCTON NATURE NEWS
February 27, 2025
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**The annual ever-popular Nature Moncton birdfeeder tour
will take place on Saturday, March 8. A complete write-up is below.
NATURE
MONCTON BIRD FEEDER TOUR
Saturday, March 8, 2025 (with a weather date of Saturday, March 15, 2025)
Nature Moncton’s annual bird feeder tour will take place on Saturday, March
8th. Participants are asked to meet at 8:30 AM at the
Superstore on Main Street near the Dollarama. Carpooling can be discussed at
that time.
The first stop will be the Richards in Taylor Village to see the many birds in
their well-stocked feeder yard while socializing over a delicious pot-luck
breakfast. Participants are asked to bring food contributions, and if your
contribution is not fully consumed, please take the leftovers on to the final
stop and if still leftovers, take them home with you. After leaving
the Richards’, the group will travel to Memramcook and the home of Yolande and
Eudor Leblanc and hopefully see some of the great assortment of patrons that
regularly hang out there. Next, we go on to Fred and Lynn Dube’s in Lower
Coverdale. We will end the afternoon at
Nelson Poirier’s back in Moncton for further socializing over coffee/tea and
snacks. Come and enjoy a day with fellow birding enthusiasts along with the
excitement of seeing what turns up at the visited feeders.
Due to space restrictions, we will
have to limit the number of attendees. Please contact Fred Richards at
506-334-0100 or email fred.j.richards@gmail.com to reserve a spot.
(Use this
number any time during the day to find out where the group is and join in.)
Members can reserve anytime, but non-members
cannot register until March 3rd.
Directions to follow. Stay tuned.
**The warmer temperatures brought out a red fox
on the Riverview marsh across from Halls Creek. Georges Brun was able to
photograph it doing the Yosemite Sam high jump and rewarded with its prey.
Downriver on the Petitcodiac River, as the tidal bore was moving upriver, a lone male northern shoveler was observed.
A red-tailed hawk flew over A&W, then headed across
Champlain toward the entrance to Wheeler Blvd, and landed in the spruce trees. Georges saw the bird only because the crows spotted it quickly to enjoy a harassing
session.
**Golden-crowned kinglets have had a good year if reports
are indicative of them appearing around bird feeder yards.
Fred Dube had a camera aimed at the right time to manage
to get three golden-crowned kinglets together in one view on the ground to flash their golden crowns.
Fred also photographed one of their regular brown
creepers enjoying suet, as well is a dark-eyed junco surveying the
menu.
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
