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MONCTON NATURE NEWS
June 22, 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:
**There
are reports on Sunday morning of one of the peregrine falcon nestlings on
the summit of Assumption Place heading back and forth from the long perch
extending from the nest box. The next week could be interesting!
**Jane
LeBlanc returned from a very hot trip to Ontario to visit family and found a
very worn monarch butterfly laying eggs on her milkweed in St. Martins.
(Editor’s
note: What a warm, fuzzy feeling to be getting photos of ovipositing monarch
butterflies! It is hoped this is just a start to many more.)
**Aldo Dorio photographed a willet at the end of Malpec Road on the coastline near Neguac on Saturday. Willet at this site are not regularly reported, so hopefully a new nesting location can be assumed.
**Brian
Stone sends a few photos of a male ring-necked pheasant that regularly
perches on a shed roof in his backyard and displays loudly for all to hear. He seems to think the high ground will give him an advantage in love and
territorial domination!
**The
turkey vulture is a bird that does not seem to mind being
around humans, but not at close quarters as it quickly shies away from close
human contact.
Nelson
Poirier was surprised on Saturday morning to come across a turkey vulture in the Maugerville appearing to guard its booty of a large, well-ripened raccoon roadkill with
vehicles speeding by just a few feet away from it. Nelson took a few photographs because the turkey
vulture appeared to have no plans of leaving its prize, even though it was
garnering lots of attention.
**Nelson Poirier was hiking in deep woods in the Keswick area near Fredericton on Saturday and was surprised to come across a feather he suspected could be that of a turkey. When the group gathered to discuss the find, one reported they saw a large bird strutting in the area earlier and another was fairly confident they saw a turkey. This evidence seemed to make the feather origin more plausible. The feather was 12 in. in length
The
habitat may have seemed unusual for a turkey, but not for a nesting female,
which heads into deeper woods after breeding to nest and raise her family.
Nelson Poirier.
Nature Moncton
