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**Georges
Brun comments that he was lucky to capture on a digital camera a short-eared
owl, approximately 100 + snow buntings, and a lonely red fox on the Riverview Marsh.
The owl and snow buntings were at least 1 km from his location. The fox
was hunting on some of the remaining marsh grass, as most of the marsh now has
phragmites plants in over 25 big patches.
(Editor’s note: The short-eared owl is a very special sighting with the Moncton Christmas Bird Count happening on December 20. This area has often hosted an overwintering short-eared owl, and chances are there’s more than one.)
**By this
time of year, many birdfeeder yards are getting reacquainted with the American
tree sparrow that spends its winter vacation in New Brunswick after its
seasonal breeding to the north of us. It will leave us to return north come April.
David Lilly
captured a portrait of an American tree sparrow spending its winter in
David’s Oromocto yard.
**Jane
LeBlanc caught a white-throated sparrow out in the open enough to get a
pleasant photo showing off its clean white throat, white headbands, and
signature yellow supraloral spot.
The
white-throated sparrow also comes in a tan-striped morph plumage with tan and
brown head stripes.
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
