NATURE MONCTON INFORMATION LINE, March
03, 2021 (Wednesday)
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Edited by: Nelson Poirier nelsonpoirier435@gmail.com
Transcript by: Brian Stone bjpstone@gmail.com
Info Line # 506-384-6397 (384-NEWS)
**Clara Thaysen from NB Environmental
Network sends a reminder on the webinar on tonight many naturalists may be
interesting in joining in on. Set your phone alarm now to not forget. Clara’s
note below:
“A friendly reminder
that the fourth installment of the NB Wildlife Webinar Series is TONIGHT,
TUESDAY MARCH 3 AT 6:30 PM. Join us to learn all about eiders and other
sea ducks from Scott Gilliland, a Wildlife Biologist from the Canadian Wildlife
Service.
Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85468832179?pwd=T0xqLzZZNzBVMzM1Y054bm9BWW9tZz09
Webinar ID: 854 6883 2179
Passcode: 133804
See you tonight!
Clara”
** As we experienced on Tuesday the
wind was wild and cold. Daryl Doucet’s resident female EASTERN TOWHEE [Tohi à
flancs roux] found it a bit windy as well. Daryl took a few photos of it being
wind-tossed. Folks report that the birds seemed to be very appreciative of
feeders on Tuesday.
** Bev Schneider in Douglas near
Fredericton has had a RED-SHOULDERED HAWK [Buse à épaulettes] visit her each
year for 5 years acting similarly and suspects it to be the same bird. Bev sent
a video of it to be shared on last night’s virtual birdfeeder tour but a glitch
would not let it play. Take a look at this beautiful uncommon to New Brunswick
raptor at the attached video link.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4qajcu3hby1yanr/Red-shouldered%20Hawk%20-%20Bev%20Schneider.m4v?dl=0
** Maureen Girvan leaves an interesting
scenario after the virtual birdfeeder tour on Tuesday night. Maureen comments
that she lives in an apartment and has hanging flower baskets in the summer and
in the winter, she puts bird seeds on top of the soil and the birds love it.
What a nice suggestion!
** Brian Coyle shares another trail
camera video of a FISHER, assuming it to be the same one that he got
track/trail photos of earlier. Note the trail leading up to the animal of the
large tracks and a distance apart to indicate bounds, typical of the Mustelidae
group of mammals. The animal also has a very dark pelage and a bushy tail
typical of the Fisher. Take a look at the action at the link below, maybe
playing it over a few times as we shortened it up to just include the action
pass.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/eqb3oxtpafdwslf/Fisher%20-%20Brian%20Coyle.mp4?dl=0
**Rheal
Vienneau sends a link to an interview with one of the very respected gurus of MONARCH
BUTTERFLY migration, Lincoln Brower. He is interviewed at a site in Mexico with
all the migrated butterflies in the background the background and will be very
interesting for Monarch Butterfly enthusiasts. When the link opens, there is
another option to click on the view the video interview.
Brian also
points out that the White-tailed Deer carcass is located near the road at
the railway crossing the Lower Mountain Road, not the Upper Mountain Road as
reported yesterday (Editor’s error)
Nelson Poirier,
Nature Moncton
