**Many thanks to Nic McClellan and Adam Campbell who came to Nature
Moncton Tuesday evening to share an information packed session on Ducks
Unlimited projects and how they come about, many of us were not aware of and
many of them nearby. Nic gave some very interesting fish passage information at
fish ways with Ducks Unlimited projects now tagging fish and following their
movements. There were many questions but a very significant point brought up by
Norm Belliveau was to place observation mounds at some of the Ducks Unlimited
projects such as Calhoun Marsh that once the foliage comes the back area cannot
be viewed with a birding scope. The idea was very well received and they said
this was going to be easy to incorporate into new projects being done and would
get immediate consideration.
**Dale Gaskin has advised that he has been in contact with New
Brunswick farmer Mike Dickinson, who will be able to again bring a supply of NB
grown black oil sunflower seeds to a Nature Moncton meeting night either October
or more probably November. The price will be $15 per bag, the same as it has
been since Mike started coming several years ago. This is not a Nature Moncton
fundraising project but to support a NB farmer and product we all use. To
reserve orders make sure to call Dale Gaskin at 734-2197 and if you get a
message leave your name and the number of bags you would like. All thanks to
Dale for organizing this project again.
**With the warm evenings lots of insects are extending their season.
When Brian Stone got home from the Tuesday night Nature Moncton meeting he got a
nice photo of a CADDIS FLY perched on a screen. Note the delta wing fashion
typical of this species that can look like a moth when it's in flight at nights.
The prolific caddis fly provides a great deal of food to underwater fish in its
larval form.
Brian also got a GREEN LACEWINGS FLY, a fly that tends to prey on
other small insects we deem as pests and a CROSS SPIDER was checking its web.
Nelson Poirier,
Nature Moncton
CADDIS FLY 01. SEPT. 20, 2016. BRIAN STONE
CROSS SPIDER. SEPT. 20, 2016. BRIAN STONE
GREEN LACEWING FLY. SEPT. 20, 2016. BRIAN STONE
