Nature Moncton Nature News: March 15 2017

NATURE MONCTON INFORMATION LINE, March 15, 2017 (Wednesday)

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**Marquette Winsor comments that she has seen a few immature male RING-NECKED PHEASANTS around their Salisbury home over the winter, but the male that showed up in their backyard on Monday took the prize for its handsome plumage.

**John Filliter and Clevie Wall also enjoyed a male ring-necked pheasant boldly coming up to their Cape Brûlée home walkway.

John recently saw a male strolling around his yard at 9:15pm under a full moon. Perhaps a Romeo out on an amorous adventure!

**Jean-Paul Leblanc comments the BROWN CREEPER they saw on Monday was also at the Chislom's feeder yard in Bouctouche as well as the BOREAL CHICKADEE mentioned yesterday.

Jean-Paul and Stella also got some nice photos of COMMON MERGANSERS on Tuesday in Bouctouche Bay along the small river just past the St Edouard wharf.

**Brian Coates, a former Nature Moncton member, shares a photo taken after a scenario in August 1992 with a NORTHERN HARRIER. Georges Brun's recent photo of a northern harrier brought back the rewarding memory to Brian. Brian and wife Pam were on the Hillsborough marshes one afternoon when they came upon a northern harrier stuck in a mud shallow and not able to get into flight and making quite a commotion. They were able to capture it getting it into a blanket. They immediately took it to their home and showered it with water to remove the caked mud and put it into a box to dry. Later that evening they took it back to the marsh where they found it and released it. It immediately flew to a nearby fence then flew off into the distance seemingly none the worse for the experience. This incident took place at a time when bird rehabilitation sites were not as they are today. Pam Coates got a photo of it with Brian before they released it.

**We've had a PINE WARBLER visiting our feeder yard the past few days but couldn't get it to settle down for a photo until Tuesday. We had one visiting earlier in the winter but I think this is a different one as it didn't seem to know the different feeder offerings when it first arrived, but getting onto things on Tuesday.

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Nelson Poirier

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