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** The
regular Tuesday night Nature Moncton outing takes place tonight, Tuesday August
10th. We are fortunate to have Dan Hicks, Director of Parks and
Recreation for the City of Moncton, lead us to see some of Moncton’s special
trees. Dan is very experienced as an
arborist and has Moncton completely mapped as to what trees are where and will
have a lot to offer. A write up of the evening is attached below:
How is Moncton’s
urban forest preparing for climate change? Come check out some Carolinian
tree species in Centennial Park with a stroll along the Colvert Trail around
Centennial Pond. You’ll see Dawn Redwood, Redbud, Tulip tree, Catalpa, Sycamore
Walnut, Sweetgum and Flowering Dogwood to name a few. For those who wish to go
further there are some Katsura trees, Golden Chain Trees and what may be the
largest Mountain Ash in North America scattered around town. Meet at the top of
the hill at the stairway by the canteen at Centennial Park at 6:15 for a prompt
6:30 departure.
**George Brun
comments on the large number of water birds and shorebirds that are foraging at
Bis Marsh easily accessed of Louis St. in Dieppe by taking the short trail to
the Riverside Trail, turning right, and taking a short trail through a wooded
area to a good viewing area. Mornings tend to be best but tide may affect that
as well.
**Aldo Dorio
got an excellent photo of a LEAST SANDPIPER at Hay Island on Monday
showing the yellowish greenish legs and the slight droop of the bill tip and
the brownish plumage tones. We can
expect to see larger numbers of this, our smallest peep sandpiper, to be moving
through at this time.
Aldo also
got a photo of a DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANT drying its wings not being
fooled by the large imitation shark fin decoy aside it.
**Brian and
Annette Stone visited Johnson's Mills on Monday to check for the migrating SANDPIPERS
at high tide time. When they got there only a small group of the sandpipers was
flying around in formation and briefly landed on the rocky beach a few times. Brian
was able to get nice photos of the movements of that group. They were viewing
from the area further past the Interpretive Center but a staff member there
told them that earlier a larger group of about 8,000 birds had been scared off
by a Peregrine Falcon and had flown down the coast.
A SEAL appeared briefly far out in the water for a super long-distance
photo. They waited about 2 hours, but no more birds appeared, so they departed.
Along the way a 22° SOLAR HALO
manifested around the Sun and Annette spotted what was suspected to
possibly be a segment of the larger, and rare, 46° SOLAR HALO.
A small group of WHITE-WINGED
CROSSBILLS was observed for a length of time but did not come close enough
for a clear photo.
Nelson Poirier,
Nature Moncton
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