NATURE MONCTON INFORMATION LINE, Oct. 14, 2018 (Sunday)
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Transcript by: David Christie maryspt@mac.com
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** Gilles Belliveau located a WHITE-EYED VIREO [Viréo
aux yeux blancs] on Saturday morning, and got news out quickly to share the
find. Many of us were able to get there and, though elusive at times, doing its
flycatcher thing, some great observations were had of a colourful adult bird.
It was a lifer for me in New Brunswick. Gilles located it on a side path to the
left near the sewage lagoon, directly across from chemin La Montain, in
Memramcook. It was a busy spot with a lot of other birds passing through,
especially RUBY-CROWNED KINGLETS [Roitelet à couronne rubis], YELLOW-RUMPED
WARBLERS [Paruline à croupion jaune], and BLACK-CAPPED CHICKADEES [Mésange à
tete noire], plus others. Thank you, Gilles, for sharing your good fortune
and so successfully relocating it over a period of time.
** Karen and Jamie Burris are wild mushroom
connoisseurs and are having a banner year. They have already dried and frozen
several pounds for winter culinary delights. Jamie’s 23 SHAGGY PARASOL [Lépiote déguenillée] specimens, which are choice edibles,
are appearing in his Riverview yard with an interesting story of how they got
there. This is not a commonly found mushroom in our area, but Jamie did find
one in 2015 and tossed it in the backyard under a spruce tree. It obviously
liked what it found, as it popped up in following years to be the crop he has
now. A very interesting scenario.
A new mushroom for them this year is the
SWEET CORAL CLUB (Cladariadeelphus truncatus). . The Burrises prepared this one by dipping it in an egg wash and bread
crumbs, a sprinkle of powdered sugar, and a little squeeze of orange juice to
end up with a gourmet dish!
** This is a season of mushroom abundance. The Activities
Committee has adopted the idea of a theme for the second half of the monthly
meeting nights. On Tuesday night, Oct. 16. First half of the meeting will be a
presentation by Heather Loomer on New Brunswick’s PROTECTED NATURAL AREAS. The
write-up for that is attached below.
Nature Moncton October Meeting
Tuesday, October
16, 2018 at 7:00 p.m.
Mapleton Rotary
Lodge (across from former Cabela’s)
New Brunswick’s Protected Natural Areas
Guest Speaker:
Heather Loomer
New Brunswick’s
Protected Natural Areas (PNAs) are designated sites, protected in perpetuity,
for the conservation of New Brunswick’s diversity of flora and fauna and the
natural spaces, habitats, and ecosystems on which they depend. Currently in New
Brunswick there are 208 sites designated under PNA legislation protecting a
total of 274,000 hectares of land and inland waters.
Heather Loomer is a
biologist with the Protected Natural Areas Section of the Dept. Energy and
Resource Development in Fredericton. Heather’s presentation will highlight a
few of these sites, explaining why they are worthy of protecting and visiting.
Heather’s presentation
will provide some special areas for folks to visit and what to look for that
led to their protection.
All are welcome, Nature
Moncton Member or not.
Subject for the second half will be WILD
MUSHROOMS. It will include identification tips, good edibles, inedibles,
culinary tips, or whatever participants want to hear more about. We need lots of specimens. Participants are
asked to start gathering specimens in advance. Show-and-tell tables will be set
up, so that specimens can be identified and discussed. Try to gather as fresh
specimens as possible over the next days, place them in damp moss, if possible,
in a flat container and refrigerate them with a large felt marker “DO NOT EAT”.
Do not store them in plastic bags. The specimens that folks bring in will be an
important part of the event and we’ll see a much greater variety of mushrooms
than a field foray to one habitat. Folks bringing in specimens are asked to
come at 6:30 so that the specimens can be laid out on tables and ready to start
at 8 o’clock. Start gathering now, there are lots of them.
Nelson Poirier,
Nature Moncton
SHAGGY PARASOL OCT 12 2018 JAMIE BURRIS
SWEET CORAL CLUB . OCT 12 2018 .JAMIE BURRIS
SWEET CORAL CLUB. OCT 12 2018 .JAMIE BURRIS
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