Nature Moncton Nature News: August 9 2017

NATURE MONCTON INFORMATION LINE, August 09, 2017 (Wednesday)

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**Louise Nichols visited the Highland Park lagoons in Salisbury on Tuesday and was able to have an audience with the COMMON GALLINULE family that Dave Miller and Ron Steeves had reported earlier. One photo shows the lobed feet characteristic of the COOT family. Louise saw 2 adults and 5 chicks.

**Carmella Melanson shares more photos of a adult CHIPPING SPARROW with its fledglings. The fledglings would be hard to recognize not being with the adult.

Carmella also shares a nice photo of the BURROWING OWL on Grand Manan that she took on August 03.

**Laurie Betts in Riverview had been noticing an unfamiliar CRICKET in his basement recently. It turns out it is the CAMEL CRICKET. Some photos are attached with one leg missing which happens to make a nice photo of the body.

**Leon Gagnon leaves some observations from the Wilson's Point area of Miscou Island. He saw seven WHIMBREL on Tuesday morning and as well a PEREGRINE FALCON flew over. Leon continues to see a BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO periodically in the area of his Wilson's Point summer place.

**Aldo Dorio was fortunate enough to get a photo of the elusive WILSON'S SNIPE foraging on the coastline at Hay Island on Tuesday. It's not often we see this common bird so nicely in the open.

**Brian Stone photographed a doe white-tailed deer with her twin fawns in a field near Johnson's Mills on Monday

**The SPOTTED SANDPIPER young-of-the-year that were hatched here in NB are now appearing on shorelines. A photo of one is attached showing the unspotted breast taken on the beach at Pointe-Sapin on Monday.

**A day flying moth I am noting fluttering about the past few days in the Moncton area that looks like a pale brown butterfly is the male GYPSY MOTH. The female does not fly and lays her egg mass usually on trees often at the base. This moth is problematic if in large numbers as they forage on several deciduous tree species. A photo is attached of the perched moth.

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Nelson Poirier

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