NATURE MONCTON NATURE NEWS
March 23, 2025
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**John Inman noticed more honeybees out and about
on Saturday in the sunflower seed, and one of the two chipmunks that had
been out the last week was back. A bright new
breeding plumage male rusty blackbird arrived to join the five rusty
blackbirds out of the eight that made it through the winter.
**Norbert Dupuis captured another of his
special moments when his resident male northern cardinal had an
altercation with the resident female hairy woodpecker.
**Jane LeBlanc
caught a white-breasted
nuthatch in her yard on
Saturday.
Later, driving through St.
Martins, she noticed a single male
common merganser in brackish
water near the sea caves.
**On Saturday, the Nature Moncton group visited the Fundy Maple sugar
camp at Turtle Creek and enjoyed an excellent talk explaining the process and
extra Fundy Biosphere information. Brian Stone took a few photos of the event and
from the second part of the outing, which was a walk along the Mill Creek
trails in Riverview. Besides the beautiful scenery, Brian photographed a black-capped chickadee, a pileated
woodpecker, a pair of mallard
ducks, and the first patch of coltsfoot flowers of the season.
He took two short video clips, one of the small waterfalls alongside the
first sections of the trail, and one of the large waterfall over the big
dam.
**Ice out/breakup on the Miramichi River is always a sudden and dramatic event. That happened on Saturday afternoon in front of Nelson Poirier’s camp on the little Southwest Miramichi River. Very suddenly, a minor movement was noted in the wide part of the river, followed very quickly by huge cakes of ice moving rapidly. The very significant scenario this year was that the ice breakup at this site was 3 to 4 weeks earlier than most other years. Check out the scene in the video at the link below:
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
