Nature Moncton Nature News: Nov 8 2018

NATURE MONCTON INFORMATION LINE, November 08, 2018 (Thursday)

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Info Line # 506-384-6397 (384-NEWS)

**The NORTHERN CARDINAL [Cardinal rouge] action continues … Fred and Lynn Dube now have their first cardinal ever. A bright, adult male visited their Niagara Rd. feeder yard on Wednesday morning. The Cardinal reports of the last few days have been surprising. Hopefully this is a wave coming to the area to stay with us. I do recall a fall several years ago when a similar scenario occurred but that did not reflect a winter stay. Hopefully this time it will be more permanent than that year.

Yet another Northern Cardinal to make a surprise visit! Jane LeBlanc was pleased to spot a bright adult male Northern Cardinal visit her St. Martins feeder yard on Thursday morning. Jane comments she has only had a cardinal visit 3 or 4 times in the 40 years she has lived there. While focusing on the cardinal, she heard an unusual call and looked up in a nearby tree to spot a Canada Jay. Jane comments this species is not common in her area.

** Brian Stone visited Mapleton Park on Wednesday. The regularly expected residents were there and were photo cooperative. The MALLARD [Canard colvert] duck photo is a nice photo of both genders to closely look at all the identification features to easily separate them from other ducks of different genders. The recent windstorm did a lot of damage in the park that Brian documented, and BLACK-CAPPED CHICKADEES [Mésange à tête noire], RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES [Sittelle à poitrine rousse] and RED SQUIRRELS [Ecureuil roux] were pleased that he brought along a few treats for them.

** All thanks to Sean Blaney for coming to give a presentation on the use of iNaturalist to a group of Nature Moncton participants on Wednesday night. Sean stressed the importance of iNaturalist.ca on collecting information on what is present and where as well as giving identification of items that we want identified. It would appear to be a very valuable service to the user as well as providing citizen science at the same time.

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