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MONCTON NATURE NEWS
May 28, 2025
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To
view the live feed of the Peregrine Falcon nest cam on the summit of Assumption
Place in Moncton, go to:
**Jane LeBlanc saw yellow warblers on her bike ride near her St. Martins home on Tuesday morning, then saw some again in her yard later.
**David Lilly shares a few more of his
warbler photographs from Grand Manan with a few poses of a black-and-white warbler,
one of which is of the bird going downward, which is the species' frequent posture.
**Brian Stone visited Haut-du-Ruisseau Nature
Park in Memramcook on Monday with photos of jack-in-the-pulpit plants and brown
elfin butterflies in mind as he got those there last year at this time, but was
disappointed not to see them this time. Items he did find that asked to be
photographed were nodding trilliums in flower, and red trilliums
past flowering. In a water-filled ditch beside the trail, he noted a green
frog, small tadpoles, and mayfly larvae all together in a
small area. Several northern azure butterflies, one quite worn, posed
nicely, and a mourning cloak butterfly was seen at a good distance in
some dry reeds. A white-throated sparrow and a female hairy
woodpecker stayed in the woodland shadows but gave their positions away
with song and tapping.
Many small wild bees were busy
exploring dandelion flowers in all the places Brian visited on Monday. A quick
stop at the Memramcook lagoons and Reid McManus Nature Reserve produced only a
male northern pintail duck and a least flycatcher.
On a
dirt road just off the New Scotland Rd. Brian found a bluish spring moth
that gave him several nice photos. While he was taking these pictures, a wolf
spider ran up to the moth, and Brian thought he was about to witness a
hunter take its prey, but the spider just looked at the moth for a few minutes
and then ran off. It must have been shopping for something of a different flavour.
**Nelson Poirier noticed red-berried elder
in a blaze of bloom on Tuesday. The cone-shaped inflorescence really caught the
eye.
Our other native elder, the common elder,
blooms later in the season and has a flat inflorescence of blooms.
Nelson Poirier.
Nature Moncton
