NATURE MONCTON INFORMATION LINE, July 12, 2021 (Monday)
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**Jim Johnson in Scotch Settlement has had a slowly swelling colony of CLIFF
SWALLOWS nesting under the eave of his home. Jim put up a man-made clay nest at the site a
few years ago. They did not use it first
year but this year, it is appearing to be occupied. Jim comments one of the mud nests fell with 2
nestlings in it on Friday.
**Maureen
Girvan got 3 photos of a BALD EAGLE perched on a pylon with prey in the
Upper Coverdale area we are not used to seeing. It appears to be a mammal with
a bushy tail and not particularly slender that rules out several possibilities.
It cannot be of significant weight for the eagle to readily carry it. A smaller
younger animal would be a possibility. Suggestions welcomed.
**The
NB Botany Club held a field trip on Saturday, July 10 at the extremely plant
rich Chance Harbour Fen where an amazing diversity of plants were observed,
some very rare in NB. Several Nature Moncton members got many great photos, too
many to share in this edition. Our plan is to assemble them over the next days,
label them, and put out a special edition of this blog to share with other botanically
interested folk. Hope we can pull it off within the next week.
Gart
Bishop and Liz Mills were the outstanding leaders.
**One
photo from that day from Gordon Rattray is of the colourful spider, the ARABESQUE ORBWEAVER (Neoscona arabesca)
which is reported as common but one no one had recalled seeing before. It was
under 2 cm. and no web was noted.
**Fred
and Lynn Dube are getting very interested in moths visiting their home to day
perch. Fred got photos of the SINGLE-DOTTED
WAVE MOTH and the INTERMEDIATE HOODED OWLET which were
unfamiliar to me but quickly identified, courtesy of Jim Edsall.
**With
hummingbird nests a hot topic after Brian Stone’s incredible observations of
yesterday, John Massey shares a photo of a nest of an EMERALD HUMMINGBIRD he
took in Holguin, Cuba in 2008, filled to the brim with youngsters looking like
they must be ready to join the flight world soon. A photo of the adult surely shows how it gets
its name!
Nelson Poirier,
Nature Moncton
