NATURE MONCTON INFORMATION LINE, June 8, 2021 (Tuesday)
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Transcript by Susan Richards susan_richards@rogers.com
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**At sunrise at the old sewage lagoon at Highland Park
in Salisbury Monday morning, Clifford Twist saw 2 swift and erratic flying
birds. The 2 birds turned out to be BLACK TERN [Guifette noire]. He observed
the 2 birds for about fifteen minutes.
David Miller who was also there said that he had never seen Black Terns
in this area before. The fast-moving
birds were hard to photograph but Clifford got some photos looking into the
sun. The surprises at this site just
don’t seem to stop!
**Phil Riebel got two great photos of a COMMON GOLDENEYE [Garrot à oeil d'or] and her family at a small pond near their home on Rennie
Road in the Douglastown area of Miramichi.
What spectacular photos!
**Georges Brun was able to capture photos of the PEREGRINE FALCON [Faucon pèlerin] nest atop Assumption Place in Moncton. There are 2 chicks there.
Georges had a CEDAR
WAXWING [Jaseur d'Amérique] visit his
apple and cherry trees to forage on the petals as this species does as well as
a few aphids. A CANADAIAN TIGER
SWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLY was folded and looking very fresh next to the former
control structure in Riverview.
**Louise Nichols heard an EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE [Pioui de l'Est] near their Aulac home.
She heard it when she walked out of the house on Sunday morning. It caught her ear right away because she
hadn’t heard one in a while. She didn’t
see it, but heard it sing a number of times and managed to record it once. She doesn’t think that the Eastern Wood-Pewee
would prefer the woods around their place but maybe it was just passing
through. She heard it continue on but it
was farther and farther away as though it was heading up the road. Check out the audio link Louise got that’s
attached below.
On Saturday morning, Louise joined the Nature New
Brunswick outing to the Nature Conservancy of Canada property at Baie Verte,
with Elaine Gallant and Wendy Sullivan.
They hiked down the main trail to the beach. They were looking for anything they could
find and Louise focused her camera on a few dragonflies and one damselfly that
are attached and labeled. She also got a
photo of a Green Coma Butterfly showing both the top and underwing view.
Louise comments, it was a beautiful morning out there
and nice to discover a nature spot that she had never seen before.
**Jane LeBlanc got some great flight photos of a NORTHERN
HARRIER while travelling through Riverside-Albert on Monday and stopped to see the PEREGRINE
FALCON family at Hopewell Rocks but a terrific wind kept her from getting the
photos she would like.
Jane also spotted a BEAVER swimming in the Bay of
Fundy but it soon headed to land and fresh water.
**On Friday to Sunday, Gordon Rattray was
participating in the BioBlitz for Nature New Brunswick Festival. He visited a lot of locations and uploaded
nearly 90 photos to their site on i-naturalist.
Gordon will share some of these photos in the next few days. Gordon took some photos of the canoe event hosted by
Nature Moncton for the Festival of Nature as well.
A highlight was a visit to Hopewell Cape Rocks on
Friday to capture the family of Peregrine Falcons at feeding time. They have an observation location to view the
nesting area.
**Brian Stone went to the Hopewell Rocks Park on
Monday to check out the PEREGRINE FALCON chicks nesting on the cliff-face near
the Big Cove viewing platform. Compare the size of the ones Gordon got on
Friday just three days earlier. The 3
chicks are still not much more than big fuzzballs but they occasionally stand
up and give a preview of their development to come.
On the trails through the park, Brian photographed a BLUE-HEADED VIREO [Viréo à tête bleue], an AMERICAN REDSTART
[Paruline flamboyante] and got a
photo of a ROCK PIGEON on a nest under the big staircase. On his way home, Brian drove slowly over the
Caledonia Mountain and stopped to take pictures of a SWAINSON'S THRUSH [Grive à dos olive] and the MAGNOLIA
WARBLER [Paruline à tête cendrée].
Brian made one more stop on his way back to Highland
Park in Salisbury. He saw 2 AMERICAN COOTS [foulques] crossing a pond, a COMMON GRACKLE [Quiscale bronzé] feeding chicks on its nest and BLUE FLAG IRIS blooming
beside the trail. Finally, the heat
began to overpower Brian’s resistance and he retreated to the air-conditioned
car and left for home.
Brian also stopped at Tucker Street Ducks Unlimited
impoundment on Sunday. There were some
duck family members there but not in notable numbers. Two or 3 pairs of TREE SWALLOW [Hirondelle bicolore] and dragonflies were starting to fly, photographing a
female COMMON WHITETAIL DRAGONFLY [Libellule à queue blanche commune] (female). The CANADA
GOOSE [Bernache du Canada] families
were joining up. A SILVERY BLUE
BUTTERFLY [Papillon bleu argenté] posed nicely for a view of the wings over and
under.
Nelson Poirier,
Nature Moncton
