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MONCTON NATURE NEWS
August 3, 2025
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**There are two leucistic/albinistic
common grackles that have chosen to patronize Riverview bird feeder yards.
Sheilagh Price reported one on July
12 that was completely creamy white, and recently Jennifer Wood on Court St. in
Riverview photographed another, which is obviously a different bird. Jennifer’s
visitor has an obvious grey patch on the wing and primary wing feathers.
**Brian Stone sends some late photos
that he finally got processed from last Thursday. He went to two spots in the
Amherst area that were found by Louise Nichols to have a population of blue dasher
dragonflies, and he spent a couple of hours in total waiting for some to
show up. Finally, one male blue dasher did show up in each spot. Also seen
in these areas were some spreadwing damselflies, some eastern
forktail damselflies, some meadowhawk dragonflies, and a bluet
damselfly with a prey item.
Later in the day, at Woodside out on
highway 15, he saw two red-tailed hawks perched and flying, and one even
resting on a distant hay bale in a field. As they flew around the area, they
were calling loudly and were together at times.
**Nelson Poirier had a visit from a one-eyed sphinx moth that cooperated in showing its 'scary eyes' on its hind wings to scare off predators and inquisitive naturalists.
Nelson Poirier.
Nature Moncton
