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**Nature
Moncton Movie Night is on tomorrow night, Thursday, with anyone anywhere able to
join in, watch, and share thoughts on this special movie. All details below:
Feb.
5, 2026 at 7:00 PM, via Zoom
Film: Migrations with Alain Clavette and Zachary
Richard, a film by Roger Leblanc.
Birds
and migration have always fascinated mankind. Zachary Richard, the Cajun singer
songwriter, got interested in birds many years ago and started observing and
recording birds in his own backyard. Later, wanting to learn more, he teamed up
with experts on the subject, one of whom was New Brunswick birder Alain
Clavette. It was their mutual interest in nature that brought them together,
but it was also a coming together of two “Acadies,” the original one from the
north and the more recent “Cajun” from the south. From the unending mud flats
of the upper Bay of Fundy to the luxuriant bayous of Southwestern Louisiana and
back to the bird “nursery” islands of Southeastern New Brunswick, the
exceptional footage in this film helps foster an intimate meeting with the
birds and their habitat expressed in Zachary Richard's music. The film is in French with English subtitles
Roger
Leblanc was a New Brunswick naturalist and film maker. He was a long-time member of Nature Moncton
and a board member of both Nature Moncton and Nature New Brunswick. Before he passed away suddenly in 2023, he
was always available to lead a workshop or outing. He is very much missed.
Please
use the link below to join us for this event:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81735384703?pwd=arDCR7Dvgl2bJp6lMGemJPDzMBYya3.1
**Georges Brun noted the first arrival for him of a male common merganser down at the bend of the Petitcodiac River.
After a few months' hiatus, he finally saw a male ring-necked pheasant in the Riverview Marsh.
A peregrine falcon
flew in on its roost with a prey just as Georges looked up at the south side
logo of Assumption Place. It looked like the bigger female. A red
fox was roaming along the river and the edge of the marsh. A bald eagle
was trying its luck against a flock of gulls just across from the Moncton
Press Club.
**John
Inman shares a photo of a few of his white-tailed deer herd that had just
cleaned up the seed and were on their way for a nap.
Also,
the Shepody Bay ice comes in on the tide, and then it's left when the tide
recedes.
**Brian Stone was driving around the Riverview, Salisbury, and Second North River areas on Monday afternoon, hoping to find some bird life (or any other natural life) to photograph. He came across three different flocks of common redpolls, with the first two flocks being far off in the tops of tall trees, but they were nice to see anyway. Not so good for photography, though. But the third flock was a different story. At the corner of Taylor Rd. and Route 112, the old Fredericton Road, a flock of redpolls was foraging vigorously on seeds right beside the road. A few snow buntings were mixed in with the group, and they all flew up and down frequently in a mesmerizing aerial display. Brian made a short video of that activity which can be seen by clicking the link below:
At a farm on the Scott Rd. Brian noticed a small group of European starlings populating a tall tree. They flew down to the ground to forage while he watched. He also includes a photo of a pair of bald eagles that Cathy Simon spotted near her home and alerted Brian in case he wanted a photo, which he did.
**Early Tuesday morning
Brian Stone noticed a thin cloud layer around the Moon that was displaying a colourful
lunar corona.
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
