Nature Moncton Nature News: July 26 2017

NATURE MONCTON INFORMATION LINE, July 26, 2017 (Wednesday)

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**Gordon Rattray did a nice set of photos to familiarize ourselves with the many blooming plants at the moment. Common Tansy in full bloom, with a flower fly in one photo, and Queen Anne's Lace. Meadowsweet is a very common plant flowering now, the flowers are very striking in Gordon's close-up photo. Gordon photographed a mushroom that appears to be one of the numerous Russella species as when he shows the broken stem, it broke like a piece of chalk with a clean break, typical of that species of mushrooms and also the milk mushrooms (Lactarius). Other plants include Purple Loosestrife, (plants and flower close-up), Sedum, with its thick leaves close-up and a fledgeling SONG SPARROW that came near him to his to his parents displeasure.

**Brian Stone and I continued our two day visit to the Acadian Peninsula sleuthing Miscou and area. There was not any abundance of shorebirds on Miscou as yet at Malbaie or Lac Frye other than several YELLOWLEGS and one WHIMBREL in flight that did not stick around for a photo.

Several orchids were in the bogs that have to be verified. Several bog plants with berries now including Bakeapple, aka Cloudberry, lots of Black Huckleberry and dwarf huckleberry and lots more fruiting plants. As always in bogs, lots of SUNDEW plants attracting an insect lunch.

Dwarf Birch was quite common when the large catkins for the size of the shrub were noted and the uncommon to NB Brass Buttons in flower. Also many Rose Pogonia orchids were in bloom but nearing their best before date. Nice to see several BONAPARTE'S GULLS still in full breeding plumage.

A stop at Hay Island had a few fresh arrivals of LEAST SANDPIPER and one showed the incredible way they can camouflage themselves in the seaweed. Also heard NELSON'S SPARROWS, SAVANAH SPARROW, AND SONG SPARROWS there as well as a few loud WILLETS.

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Nelson Poirier

Nature Moncton