Nature Moncton Nature News: Jan 2 2020

NATURE MONCTON INFORMATION LINE, January 2, 2020 (Friday)

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** The INDIGO BUNTING [Passerin indigo] Jamie Burris had arrive to his Riverview feeder yard on Dec. 23^rd is still a daily patron and looking very comfortable. Jamie got updated photos on Jan. 1^st.

Georges Brun captured a close-up photo of the First Quarter Moon on New Year’s Day at 9:13 PM. It will progress to a Full Moon on Jan. 10.

It surely is not a time of year to expect salamanders travelling on the snow surface. George Foster in Ways Mills, Quebec found a YELLOW-SPOTTED SALAMANDER making tiny tracks in the snow on January 1st, quite a distance from the pond on his property. He brought it into his greenhouse and hopes it will survive taking a photo to share.

** Bob Blake keeps daily weather stats from his Second North River home to include morning temperature, daily highs and precipitation. Bob’s table, attached below, compares December 2018 to December 2019. I was a bit surprised to note the similar stats for the two months with the exception of rainfall which was almost 3 times more in December of 2019 than December of last year. However, December 2018 did have more snow accumulation on the ground as snow that came in November 2018 was still present.

Weather stats for Dec.

2018		2019
morning temperatures	daily highs and rainfall/snow	morning temperatures	daily highs and rainfall/snow
+12-1 day +4-1 +3-1 +2-1 -1-1 -2-4 -3-1 -5-2 -7-1 -9-5 -11-1 -12-2 -13-3 -14-3 -15-2 -17-2	+12-1 +7-1 +5-3 +4-2 +2-2 +1-2 0-2 -2-1 -3-1 -4-2 -5-3 -6-3 -7-1 -8-4 -9-3 20 mms. rain 29 cms. snow	+12-1 day +9-1 +3-1 +2-1 +1-1 -1-4 -2-1 -3-3 -4-2 -6-2 -7-2 -8 4 -9-1 -10-3 -11-1 -12-1 -13-1 -14-1	+12-1 +9-1 +8-2 +4-1 +2-1 +1-4 0-5 -2-3 -3-1 -4-2 -6-7 55 mms. rain 22 cms. snow