NATURE MONCTON INFORMATION LINE, Jan.19,
2021 (Tuesday)
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Edited by: Nelson Poirier nelsonpoirier435@gmail.com
Transcript by Susan Richards susan_richards@rogers.com
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**Last call for tonight’s
Nature Moncton’s virtual meeting with presentations repeated at the end of this
message. The join-in link is attached
below and a great way not to forget to tune in, is to set your alarm on your
cell phone.
https://meet.google.com/txq-wuas-cpe
**Georges Brun was very pleased
to look out his Churchill St. window into his small urban forest to see EVENING GROSBEAK [Gros-bec
errant] feeding on White Ash samara, a tree George planted there himself. George does not maintain bird feeders but had
a natural one outside his window. George
comments that he has not seen Evening Grosbeaks in 50 years. A SHARP-SHINNED HAWK [Épervier brun]
dropped by soon after to check
on what it had missed.
**Aldo Dorio photographed COMMON REDPOLL [Sizerin
flammé]
still enjoying birch catkins
seeds at Hay Island on Monday. It
surely is a ‘redpoll’ year in New Brunswick.
**Louise Nichols is also one of
the people who has a WHITE-BREASTED NUTHATCH [Sittelle
à poitrine blanche] who has never had one before. She
reported this a while ago, but Louise was finally able to get a better photo a
few days ago. This nuthatch has been
coming for a couple of months but never at a bird feeder. It seems to like foraging in the bark of
trees instead, quite close to the feeders but never at them.
**My solo, White-Breasted
Nuthatch finally stayed still enough for some quick photos on Monday. It seems to enjoy bird pie and sunflower hearts most and was not long in finding them.
**Brian Stone made an early afternoon visit to the
Riverview Marsh on Monday with hopes of filling his camera card with
interesting subjects but had to settle for photos of some of the AMERICAN CROWS
[Corneille d'Amérique] that were populating the marsh area in large groups. A last-minute
gift from the marsh was a distant shot of a NORTHERN SHRIKE [Pie-grieche grise]
patiently waiting in a tree for lunch to present itself, quite possibly with redpolls on mind.
One would wonder what the attraction
is to the marsh for this large number of crows. There must be some food source
but wonder what it is. None in Brian’s several photos seem to be feeding, just
hanging out. There are no large trees there so assume they leave in mass to
head for a roosting site in the city.
**To repeat the presentations
for tonight’s Nature Moncton meeting:
-Roger LeBlanc on the building
and erecting of NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL [Petite nyctale] nest boxes
-Gordon Rattray giving a visit
to the White Rock Recreational Area (former gypsum mining site) near
Hillsborough
-Louise Nichols on several
Orchids she has found on and near a bog on their Aulac property
-Pat Gibbs on appreciated
nature photos
-Nelson Poirier on a TURKEY VULTURE [Urubu à
tête rouge] moment in finding a Turkey Vulture nest site
As said, this is a virtual
meeting. Anyone anywhere can join the
presentation right from home by clicking on the link below.
https://meet.google.com/txq-wuas-cpe
nelsonpoirier435@gmail.com
Nelson Poirier,
Nature Moncton
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