Nature Moncton Nature News: July 27, 2016

**Mike Britton was able to capture an awesome photo of a male BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKER as it worked tree bark. Only the male sports the yellow crown patch. We just don't get to see this woodpecker species very often.

Mike also got a photo of a RED ADMIRAL butterfly nectaring.

The new breeds of point and shoot long zoom high resolution cameras sure do allow for nice photos when these lucky moments present themselves.

**Michelle Little, in Elgin, comments she gets a lot of RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRDS patrons, however with the young now out and the males not departed yet, she is getting up to 30-40 visitors a day to her hummer feeders.

**Brian Stone and I paid a visit to the Caledonia trail and small bog on the back adjacent side of the Irishtown Nature Park on Tuesday. A lot of clear cutting is going on there now. Items of interest were collecting BLACK TRUMPET and CHANTERELLE mushrooms, several INDIAN PIPE plants at their prime, PINE SAP plants that had gone past their prime, PITCHER plants with loaded pitcher vessels of water, many SUNDEW plants in bloom but for some reason only one bloom open on each flower head, a very distant RED-TAILED HAWK, a family of RING NECKED PHEASANTS in transitional plumage on Shepody marsh, a VICEROY BUTTERFLY, which was one of the few butterflies noted, a vocalizing GROUNDHOG under Brian's home deck, an animal seldom heard vocalizing.

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Nelson Poirier,

Nature Moncton