NATURE
MONCTON NATURE NEWS
June 14, 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:
**Yolande LeBlanc sends a photo of a very
small nest she found low in a shrub but not on the ground, and wonders if
anyone may have an idea of the occupant.
Yolande comments that the primary construction material was very fine hair, finer than what you’d expect from horsehair.
**Brian Stone took a break from processing
Festival of Nature photos on Friday and went to Hillsborough, to the back end
of the White Rock Recreational Area, to look for the two rare butterflies that
fly there at this time of year. The western tailed-blue butterfly and
the northern cloudywing skipper both appear there at the same time, and
Brian enjoys searching for them each year. The northern cloudywing showed itself about half an hour after Brian began looking and three specimens were found, but the western tailed-blue was not as cooperative this time. After two hours
of walking around the area on roadways and trails, Brian hadn't found one yet,
and he was thinking he was out of luck this time when he tried one more trail
and found his target just a few meters in.
(Editor’s note: The northern cloudy wing is a
larger skipper similar to the dreamy dusky wing, which has no spots on the
wing. This butterfly was known only from southwestern and central New Brunswick
until a Nature Moncton field trip found it at White Rock several years ago. It
has an S5 ranking in NB.
The western tailed blue butterfly was found only in north and northeastern New Brunswick until it was found on that same field
trip to White Rock. It also has an S5 ranking in New Brunswick.)
On his way home, Brian stopped in at Wilson
(Bell) Marsh and found a nice series of subjects to photograph that included a silvery
blue butterfly, an arctic skipper, an American bittern
performing a fly past, and more to come later.
Nelson Poirier.
Nature Moncton
