Nature Moncton Nature News: May 17 2016

** It's Nature Moncton's main meeting night tonight, Tuesday, May 17, at 7:00 at the Mapleton Rotary Lodge. All details are attached below. The second section of the meeting will continue the showing of member's slides, videos, and other items of interest. Make sure to bring recent photos and/or videos on a memory stick so they can be shared with the group.

Nature Moncton May, 2016 Meeting

Nature Conservancy of Canada.. Canada’s Leading Land Conservation Organization

Date: May 17, 2016. 7:00 p.m.

Place: Mapleton Rotary Lodge (across from Cabela’s)

Presenter: Kerry Lee Morris-Cormier

Since 1962, the Nature Conservancy of Canada has helped protect more than 2.8 million acres in Canada to ensure our natural spaces remain a home for wildlife, a haven for recreation, and a vital resource that filters the air we breathe and the water we drink.

NCC started work in Atlantic Canada in 1971. Today NCC has staff in Fredericton, Charlottetown, Moncton, Amherst, Halifax, St. John’s, and Happy Valley Goose Bay

Kerry Lee will focus on projects near Moncton to include the Miramichi Salmon Project, Moose Sex Project, Johnson’s Mills Shorebird Reserve and Interpretive Center, Baie Verte Nature Reserve, Grand Barachois, Richibucto Dunes, and will touch on the Musquash Estuary and Acadian Peninsula.

Kerry Lee will share with us why these are special providing reasons to visit them in our naturalist sleuthing travels to experience them for ourselves.

Kerry Lee’s time after graduation from Memorial University has led to a fascinating work career that has included Park interpreter and guide at Jasper National Park, Great White Bears tour guide in Churchill Manitoba, and more.

Kerry Lee’s contagious enthusiasm is certain to place more places to visit in everyone’s bucket list!

All are welcome

** Mac Wilmot had two BOBOLINKS [Goglu des prés] visit his Lower Coverdale feeder yard on Monday for the first time ever. Both in the photo are male, but one appears to be an adult male while the other is suspected to be a first spring male. Having this species drop by our feeder yards is spotty, and only for a short period after they begin arriving.

** Gordon Rattray revisited the rail line at Hillsborough on Friday to see YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS [Paruline à croupion jaune], BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLERS [Paruline noir et blanc], PALM WARBLERS [Paruline à couronne rousse], and a YELLOW WARBLER [Paruline jaune], which he got a nice photo of the latter. The four sparrows, SONG SPARROW [Bruant chanteur], SWAMP SPARROW [Bruant des marais], SAVANNAH SPARROW [Bruant des prés], and WHITE-THROATED SPARROW [Bruant à gorge blanche] were still present.

On revisiting on Sunday he only saw Yellow-rumped warblers and Black and White Warblers, and the only sparrows on Sunday were Song Sparrows and Savannah Sparrows. There were COMMON YELLOWTHROAT [Paruline masquée] warblers vocalizing, but staying out of sight. He noticed the flowers FLY HONEYSUCKLE and ROUGH FORGET-ME-NOT in bloom. On checking the BALD EAGLE [Pygargue à tête blanche] nest at Hopewell Cape he saw the head of an eaglet pop up.

** Marlene Hickman has been pleased to have a male ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK [Cardinal à poitrine rose] arrive to her Dorchester Yard that she is sharing with a neighbor. This is the first time she has had this striking species and she hopes the female will follow soon to set up housekeeping in the area.

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