Nature Moncton Nature News: Oct 31 2016

** Aldo Dorio photographed BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS [Jaseur boréal] foraging on WINTERBERRY HOLLY [] at Hay Island on Sunday. He estimated the flock size at 30, with no CEDAR WAXWINGS [Jaseur d'Amérique] evident among them. Aldo got a photo of a WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER. He also photographed ORANGE JELLY [Dacrymyces palmé] mushrooms. This mushroom grows on conifer trees, whereas the similar, usually yellow, WITCH’S BUTTER [Trémelle mésentérique] mushroom grows on hardwood trees.

** Larry Sherrard got a trail camera set up in woods in the Pine Glen/Niagara Road area and caught a visit by a COYOTE on Saturday. It’s a clear photo so he assumes it was during the day.

** Jamie and Karen Burris were in the Gray Brook Marsh and Hillsborough Wetland area on Sunday. They spotted a pendulous nest, suggestive of the hanging baskets of BALTIMORE ORIOLE. The construction material remaining was predominantly fishing line and blue cloth strips. It was approximately ten feet up in a young maple tree and about the size of a robin nest but deeper. Jamie did an online search and was surprised to find that so many oriole nests had blue cloth as a component.

There were approximately 100 AMERICAN WIGEON [Canard d'Amérique] closer to the golf course, and in the wetland park they spotted a GREATER YELLOWLEGS [Grand Chevalier] swimming fast and actively fishing in deeper water. Jamie got a few photos of it actually catching fish. Then it headed to shore to roost with a full tummy with two NORTHERN PINTAILS.

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Nelson Poirier

Nature Moncton