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**A
heads up to slot off this coming Thursday night for Nature Moncton movie night.
All details at the end of this message and upfront tomorrow morning.
**Message
to all Moncton Christmas Bird Count feeder participants
While
the December 20th weather was not ideal, Susan Atkinson feels she must still be missing some counts.
Even
if you watched for only 30 minutes and saw only a few birds, please let her know
so she can finalize the 2025 CBC Feeder count.
Email:
susandatkinson@hotmail.com
**Georges
Brun had the chance to get some height on Monday and got some photos from above
of the Petitcodiac River tidal bore.
Georges
got a few photos of a peregrine falcon pair flying downriver, with one
having a meal in its beak.
Just north of the McMonagle bridge on Main St
(over Halls Creek), he photographed what appeared to be a red-tailed hawk
being harassed by a crow.
Georges
also includes a photo of some grey birch seed scales on the snow in
his yard with the silhouette of some avian species!
Georges
also had six common redpolls visit the birch catkins, possibly the
reason for the birch catkin scales on the ground covering the sought-after seed underneath.
(Editor’s
note: the photographed catkin scales are from the grey birch tree.)
**A
very rare to North America taiga flycatcher has been a major attraction
to birders in the Port Moody area of British Columbia.
It
just so happens Nancy and Ted Sears, who live in St. Martins, NB, happened to
be in the Port Moody area and went on Tuesday to successfully experience
seeing this rarity. Ted did not have his photographic equipment with him, so he got
documentary photos from the LCD screen of an iPhone.
**John
Foster reports that their bird feeding yard is another that is attracting a
flock of evening grosbeaks.
This
species normally favours rural birdfeeder yards; however, with the high number
of this species in the area this year, urban feeders are attracting their
attention as well.
**Brian
Stone dropped in to Centennial Park in Moncton for a short walk on Tuesday. He
spent about half an hour following a loud mob of crows and ravens through the
woods, but was unable to see anything but the crows and ravens and so came to
think that maybe they were mobbing each other. While stalking the mob he came
across a female pileated woodpecker digging into a dead tree low down
close to the ground. Unable to find anything else to photograph there at the
park, he drove around and found some female pine grosbeaks foraging fruit
on flowering crab trees on Russ Howard Dr. that were accompanied by a few American
robins.
Film:
My Garden of a Thousand Bees
Thursday,
January 8, 2026, at 7 p.m.
By
Zoom
Leaders:
Barbara Smith & Christine Lever
You
are invited to a movie night on January 8, 2026, beginning at 7 p.m. This event
will be by Zoom only.
Together,
we’ll watch the acclaimed documentary "My Garden of a Thousand Bees"
and then Barbara and Christine will lead a discussion afterwards. This film
follows wildlife filmmaker Martin Dohrn, who, while locked down during the
pandemic, turned his lens on the surprising and diverse world of over 60
species of wild bees living in his own urban garden.
Zoom Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89334315940?pwd=2sCl3DAsoKbSC9M37i0gj5KmpzMGdb.1
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
