Nature Moncton Nature News: July 9 2025

NATURE MONCTON NATURE NEWS

July 9, 2025

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**The Nature Moncton Wednesday night walk is on tonight, Wednesday, July 9, with all details below:

WEDNESDAY NIGHT WALK

Date: Wednesday, July 9, 2025, 6:30 pm

Location: Walker Rd., Sackville

Meeting Place: On Walker Rd., close to the Trans Canada exit.

Leader: Louise Nichols

The Tantramar Outdoor Club in Sackville maintains a series of trails that run off Walker Rd, primarily used for ski trails in the winter. Some of these trails also offer excellent hiking opportunities in other seasons of the year, featuring woodland habitats with diverse plant life and a variety of birds.

For this walk, we will meet in the parking lot at the trailhead on Walker Rd. If you are driving toward Sackville from Moncton, take the Walker Rd exit. At the end of the ramp, turn right. Drive a short distance until the road turns to gravel, and you will see the parking lot on your right.

This trail is easy walking with a few tree roots and a couple of very small wet spots that are easy to get around. The trails can be “buggy,” so bring bug spray.

If you have a Nature Moncton name tag, please wear it. All are welcome, Nature Moncton members or not.

**Back on Wednesday, July 2, Brian Stone joined Louise Nichols on an outing in the Tintamarre Wildlife Area to search for butterflies and dragonflies. They walked a couple of kilometers along the berms and eventually arrived at a small bog area, which they bravely entered and scouted for a while. Many small bog copper butterflies were present and several were photographed. One specimen of the carnivorous sundew plant was photographed too. Along the berms the wind was so strong that not many things were able to land or even fly around, but one chalk-fronted corporal dragonfly and one dot-tailed whiteface dragonfly were tough enough to manage a short rest stop. A few bobolinks were perching on posts on another berm that was close to the one they were walking on but there was no connecting link so they were unable to get close enough for good views.

Yesterday, on Tuesday, Brian Stone walked half of the main trail in Mapleton Park and saw several ebony jewelwing damselflies, at least five, and watched a group of five eyed brown butterflies frantically circling each other while one took a short break and rested on a tree trunk long enough for a quick photo. Three different northern azure butterflies stopped to be viewed also, and one was photographed. A pair of young-looking red squirrels posed on a stump in an unusual display of comradeship.