** Last call for the Nature Moncton meeting tonight, Tuesday night, at the
Mapleton Park Rotary Lodge with presenters Adam Campbell and Nic McClellan on
Ducks Unlimited local projects. A full write up is added as an attachment. Folks
are asked to bring any photos or videos to share with the group for the portion
of the meeting after the break. Bring anything you have on a flash drive (
memory stick ) and the projector and laptop will be available to show them.
** Jamie Burris photographed a pair of CLOUDED SULPHUR BUTTERFLIES [Coliade du trèfle] mating in his
Riverview back yard as well as some HONEY BEES [abeille] nectaring in his yard.
The rain might be a temporary holdup, but it looks like more sun and warmth will
come to extend their season as well as ours.
** Another observation from
Big Bald Mountain ... when there recently we noted very circular depressions in
some of the rock formations. I sent these to Randy Miller at the New Brunswick
Museum for his comments. Randy comments that pot holes can form under the ice
when the area was covered with ice some 10,000 years ago. Noting that these
rocks are certainly glaciated, that is to say smooth rock surfaces. Randy also
comments that this is a tentative identification, but I suspect with Randy's
experience in this field it is probably very accurate.
Nelson Poirier,
Nature Moncton
BALD PEAK MOUNTAIN.(POTHOLES FROM GLACIATION) SEPT 16, 2016 ,
BALD PEAK MOUNTAIN.(POTHOLES FROM GLACIATION) SEPT 16, 2016 ,
BALD PEAK MOUNTAIN.(POTHOLES FROM GLACIATION) SEPT 16, 2016 ,
CLOUDED SULFUR BUTTERFLIES. SEPT 17 2016 JAMIE BURRIS
HONEY BEES. SEPT 18 2016 .JAMIE BURRIS
