NATURE MONCTON INFORMATION LINE - May 30,
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** Jamie and Karen Burris made a visit to the Tucker St, in
Riverview, Lavoie Ducks Unlimited impoundment on May 25. They found lots to
see: including 5 CANADA GEESE [Bernaches
du Canada] families with goslings, AMERICAN WIGEON
[Canard d’Amérique], LEAST
SANDPIPER [Bécasseau minuscule], lots of RED-WINGED
BLACKBIRDS [Carouge à épaulettes], hundreds of swallows included TREE SWALLOWS [Hirondelle bicolore],
BANK SWALLOWS [Hirondelle de
rivage], and BARN SWALLOWS [Hirondelle
rustique]. They also saw a COMMON TERN [Sterne
pierregarin] diving for fish in the pond. They came across what they
suspected to be Pheasant eggs which appeared eaten by a predator. Jamie
got some striking photos especially flight shots of some of the observed birds;
take a close note of the female Red-Winged Blackbird, a bird often causing
confusion in their variability.
** Phyllis MacMillan has
a BLUE JAY [Geai bleu] pair that
chose their nesting site in an area where 2 wires meet her Riverview home.
Phyllis got a photo of the adults on the nest assumedly incubating eggs on
Monday. Blue Jays usually nest in trees, on a house would not be the
normal.
Nelson
Poirier
Nature Moncton
AMERICAN WIGEON MAY 25 2017 JAMIE BURRIS
BARN SWALLOW MAY 25 2017 JAMIE BURRIS
BLUE JAY ON NEST.MAY 29, 2017.PHYLLIS MacMILLAN
CANADA GEESE MAY 25 JAMIE BURRIS
COMMON TERN MAY 25 2017 JAMIE BURRIS
LEAST SANDPIPER MAY 25 2017 JAMIE BURRIS
RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD (FEMALE) MAY 25, 2017.JAMIE BURRIS
RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD (MALE) MAY 25, 2017.JAMIE BURRIS
SPOTTED SANDPIPER MAY 25 2017 JAMIE BURRIS
