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** Jane
LeBlanc enjoyed an opportunity to do night photography at Hopewell Cape Rocks and
shares a great photo she got of Lovers’ Arch showing the Milky Way in the
background. Jane comments they couldn’t have had a better night with no wind,
pleasant temperatures, clear skies, no mosquitoes, and driving in, a GREAT HORNED OWL [Grand-duc d'Amérique] did a fly
over to greet them.
Jane’s home St. Martin’s garden, especially
the PURPLE CONEFLOWERS, continues to attract butterflies to photograph. Sunday
made for a pleasant photo of a CLOUDED SULPHER [Coliade du trèfle] butterfly.
** Roger
LeBlanc reminds one special shorebird noted on the Nature Moncton Shorebird field
trip on Saturday was the PECTORAL SANDPIPER [Bécasseau à poitrine cendrée]. This
shorebird likes impoundments and is a good place to look for them as well as
fields sometimes. The one at the Tucker Street site was at a wet spot on one of
the side trails.
** Verica LeBlanc shares some experience she has
learned about bird window strikes. While living in Ontario, she had found some
window decals in one of the large nurseries that they put on their gazebo. They
were easy to mount, were attractive, and prevented the birds from colliding.
Two years ago they had a gazebo built on their now Nelson, Miramichi residence but could not find the same type of
decals. Luckily she had one package left over from years ago as she wanted the
decals to be the same around their gazebo.
They called the company on their toll-free number to see if they would
be willing to send them some as they did not shop on-line otherwise. The
company was very pleasant to deal with and sent them Priority Post. This was in
February, 2019. This past May a hummingbird was checking them out while her
husband was sitting inside, seeming to say to us “Where are my plants?” as at
that time they hadn’t come up yet. So far, no collisions, and they have windows
all around - 12 of them, and a glass door. Verica comments going on-line to WHISPERIMG
PINES DECALS where there are several decals to choose from. They picked the
butterflies. They are white and you can read the story as to why these came
about and why they are white. There are several options for ordering by phone,
on-line, etc. They are also inexpensive and worth the money to save our birds.
Verica comments “Please check them out and share.”
** Ewan
Dobson has a passionate hobby of attracting wild birds to eat from his hands
and has spent many hours enjoying it and has now assembled his efforts into a
book form and videos that are available on-line. I am copying the press release
below for those who may be interested in seeing Ewan’s efforts. Press release
below:
The
ultimate passion story of hand-feeding wild birds by hand.
Starting
in 2018, Ewan Dobson began to document his passionate pursuit to hand-feed as
many wild birds as possible. Over a two year period, he collected footage
and compiled 2 massive video compilations. Along with this, a book was
written that tells the story of what inspired him to pursue this passion as
well as a description of the experience with all of the 22 different species he
fed by hand. All of the footage was recorded in the front yard of his
home in New Brunswick, Canada where throughout all four seasons he would stand
outside waiting for new visitors even on the most harsh of the bitterly cold
Canadian winter days (Sometimes reaching -27C / -17F). This achievement
of feeding 22 species of birds by hand was noticed by locals and was featured
on the front page of the newspaper in the capital city of the Canadian province
New Brunswick, Fredericton. For some of the species of birds, no other
footage exists of them feeding from a human hand.
The
video that accompanies the book he wrote is called “Birds I’ve Known 2018-2020”
and can be found here:
The
book that accompanies the above video is a PDF file and is roughly 10 megabytes
in size. It can be purchased for 10 USD. Please note, it is NOT a
kindle or ebook file type, it is a PDF file.
In
addition, there is an extra 2 hour video featuring 2 clips that were not added
to “Birds I’ve Known” along with much footage of hand-feeding birds in the
summer of 2020:
Please
enjoy the videos and consider showing support for this monumental achievement
by purchasing the PDF booklet for 10 USD.
** Aldo
Dorio photographed a GREATER YELLOWLEGS [Grand Chevalier], showing the variable plumage of
this species. He also photographed a LARGE MAPLE SPANWORM [Arpenteuse nouée] moth that many have been taking note of at the moment.
Nelson Poirier,
Nature Moncton
HOPEWELL ROCKS NIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY. AUG. 22, 2020. JANE LEBLANC
GREATER YELLOWLEGS. AUG 23, 2020. ALDO DORIO
CLOUDED SULPHUR. AUG. 22, 2020. JANE LEBLANC
LARGE MAPLE SPANWORM MOTH. AUG 23, 2020. ALDO DORIO
