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Tuesday 2 March 2021

March 2 2021

NATURE MONCTON INFORMATION LINE, March, 2 2021 (Tuesday)

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**Last call to Nature Moncton Virtual Feeder Tour on tonight, Tuesday at 7 p.m.  Anyone anywhere can join in to hear and see bird feeder ideas, birds and comments at the attached link.  Set your phone clock for 6:50 p.m. tonight, right now!

https://meet.google.com/hnq-hkkh-qjk

**As you may remember Brian Coyle came across a FISHER track/trails recently being certain it was a Fisher by the print size and stride and also it just poked its face in front of his trail camera enough to know for sure.  If Brian’s camera had just been tilted slightly to the right it would have caught the body.  A Fisher in this area is uncommon but more common in central to northern New Brunswick.  Take a look at the brief peek of the Fisher at the attached link.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/k84xp3042vmlwoa/DSCF0008.AVI?dl=0

 

        Also, earlier in the season, Brian got some great footage of a sow BLACK BEAR [Ours noir] nursing 3 playful cubs.  Brian sends two more videos that shows the sow Bear (the one with the cinnamon colour on the snout) and a much larger boar Bear in another video.  Check out the action at the links below.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ozioa60xe1p2mze/STC_0147.AVI?dl=0

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xekq28aiothaprk/STC_0152.AVI?dl=0

 

  These are all captured by that same huge boulder in a field across from Brian’s home near the woods edge.  It seems to be a real gathering point for several wildlife species that Brian’s trail camera has captured aimed at that rock.  One cannot help but wonder how that large boulder arrived there in the first place with seemingly broken off pieces around it.

             On Monday, Brian came across 2 WHITE-TAILED DEER [Cerf de Virginie] carcasses.  One was noted at the juncture of the Isaiah Road and Route 126 in the field on the opposite side of the road from Isaiah Road.  Not a great place to stop for photos but Brian was able to get some still pictures of 3 BALD EAGLES [Pygargue à tête blanche] at the carcass.  One is an adult with silt-stained white tail from the Petitcodiac river banks, but the plumage on another shows it as a subadult very likely to reach mature plumage this season and another well into its third year from the bill colour.  Brian also spotted another White-Tailed Deer carcass that was apparently struck by a train as it was near the road just off the railway tracks at the crossing on Lower Mountain Road.  RAVENS [Grand corbeau] and Crows[corbeau] were at it but likely another eagle target.

**Dale Gaskin reports he is getting a nice diversity of patrons to his Dawson Settlement feeder yard, but something he is noting the last few days caught his attention.  He has noted two different flocks of 25-30 PINE GROSBEAK [Durbec des sapins] picking at gravel along the roadside edge on his road and on the Pine Glen Road.

**There are still ample free swallow nest boxes ready to go to be ready for the TREE SWALLOW [Hirondelle bicolore] and EASTERN BLUEBIRDS [OISEAUX BLEU DE L'EST] to check out when they start arriving next month.  Chief carpenter Fred Richards built a nice supply this season.  Anyone wanting some can leave their name and they can be picked up in town, or if in the Taylor Village area, at Fred Richards’ workshop.

      

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Nelson Poirier,

Nature Moncton

 

BALD EAGLE ON DEER CARCASS. MARCH 1, 2021.  BRIAN COYLE

BALD EAGLE ON DEER CARCASS. MARCH 1, 2021.  BRIAN COYLE

BALD EAGLE ON DEER CARCASS (SUBADULT). MARCH 1, 2021. BRIAN COYLE

BALD EAGLE ON DEER CARCASS (IMMATURE). MARCH 1, 2021. BRIAN COYLE