Nature Moncton Nature News: Sept 3 2018

NATURE MONCTON INFORMATION LINE, Sept. 3, 2018 (Monday)

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** It’s time to watch for warblers on the move again. Jane LeBlanc got a nice photo of a BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER [Paruline à gorge noire] with little change from spring plumage, except maybe a little duller. It is a nice photo that shows the white undertail with dark terminal side patches. Jane also got photos of “peeps” on the St. Martins beach, including young of the year of SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS [Bécasseau semipalmé] and SEMIPALMATED PLOVER [Pluvier semipalmé], and young of the year SANDERLING [Bécasseau sanderling].

** It is that time of year when the morning dew makes the intricate design of spider webs a pleasing photographic target. One was very visible for Jean-Paul LeBlanc on Saturday morning.

** CEDAR WAXWINGS [Jaseur d’Amérique] tend to be late nesters and we often see the streaked-breast young of the year well into the fall. Aldo Dorio photographed one at Hay Island, ready to start life on its own.

** Brian Stone went for a hike to the Gorge Road COMMON MILKWEED [Herbe à coton] patch behind Crandall University on Sunday and found lots of insect activity. It’s that time of year to hear tree-crickets stridulating, and Brian got a video of one in stridulation. It is a BLACK-HORNED TREE CRICKET from the photo and stridulation. Take a look and listen at the attached site:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/tqtsfr1siv9e239/Cricket%20Singing.MOV?dl=0

He also came across a BANDED ARGIOPE [araignée du genre Argiope] spider, preying on a grasshopper, and got an excellent video of the spider quickly working on preparing its prey. He also got a photo of a CROSS SPIDER (Araneus diadematus); take a look at the attached site: .

https://www.dropbox.com/s/lg0ae29814d3feu/Spider%20and%20Grasshopper.MOV?dl=0

Brian also photographed the colourful WANDERING GLIDER [Pantale flavescente] dragonfly, a SHADOW DARNER [Aeschne des pénombres] dragonfly -- It is easy to note the walking stick design of the front line on the thorax --, and a CHERRY-FACED MEADOWHAWK [Sympétrum intime] is suspected, as a reddish face and saw-toothed pattern on the side of the abdomen is visible in this hard-to-identify by photos species.

He comments that there was a surprising number of SULPHURS [coliades] and WHITE [piérides] butterflies about, some sulphurs being very pale.

** On Sunday, I came across a SOLITARY SANDPIPER [Chevalier solitaire] just where one would expect this species to be, in a remote, small woodland pond. The distinct eye-ring and dappled mantle showed nicely. There were also PAINTED TRILLIUMS [Trille ondulé] showing their bright red berry.

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