NATURE MONCTON INFORMATION LINE, August 17, 2021 (Tuesday)
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**It’s
Nature Moncton Tuesday outing on tonight at Sackville Waterfowl Park lead by
Louise Nichols. All information is in
the write- up below.
Sackville Waterfowl Park
Tuesday August 17th
This week’s walk will explore the Sackville Waterfowl
Park, a favourite spot that most are familiar with. Louise Nichols will lead this walk around the
trails and boardwalks, looking for songbirds, waterfowl, plants, and
insects. If we have time, we may drive
to the other side of the highway and take a walk around the extension to the
Sackville Waterfowl Park, known as the Tantramar Wetlands, behind the Tantramar
High School.
Meet in the parking lot at the end of Mallard Drive,
Sackville, beside the Tourism Centre at 6:15 for departure at 6:30.
**Rose-Alma
Mallet got a documentary photo of a REDHEAD
DUCK at the second lagoon at Cap Brule.
This lagoon seems to have been good to us in providing Redhead visitors
over the years.
**Gabriel
Gallant found three good sized growths of HEN-OF-THE-WOODS mushrooms
under an oak tree in Miramichi that he watches every year for this
mushroom. This species is a choice
edible and does not seem to become insect infested as quickly as many mushroom
species. It is almost always associated
with Oak. Normally it does not appear until
October so the early appearance in August is unexpected. This summer’s weather has been favourable to
mushrooms in general but the warmer weather of late may slow that down but
cooler nights are prevailing.
** Brian Coyle went out to check
his trail cameras on Saturday and got a few interesting photos.
Brian
came across a fledgling CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER being fed by a parent to
offer some nice family life photos. The CEDAR WAXWINGS were abundant.
This species is a late nester which is probably in progress at the moment.
Brian also photographed a VICEROY BUTTERFLY looking very fresh which is
probably a second brood of the season.
He was
pleasantly surprised to see a very large Jack-In-The-Pulpit plant all on its
own that had gone to seed.
As
he went to a trail camera atop a Beaver lodge, he inadvertently stepped on a
ground nest of wasps that were not there 3 weeks before. He managed to get his
camera, but not without being stung on the hand by the unimpressed wasps! As Brian walked along the shore of the pond, a young BEAVER became
curious about him and came in very close, and actually began digging underwater
for roots, right at his feet.
**Ado
Dorio’s contribution from Hay Island on Monday included a YELLOW-RUMPED
WARBLER and a GREATER YELLOWLEGS taking a serious water plunge. Aldo also photographed a young-of-the-year YELLOW-BELLIED
SAPSUCKER and another EASTERN BLUEBIRD at Malpec.
**Brian
Stone walked the oval trail around the pond at Highland Park in Salisbury on
Sunday and sends a few photos of the pond bird scene there. He was alone in the park possibly due to the
heat and humidity levels which made for a quiet and uninterrupted outing. At one end of the pond, he came across a
family of COMMON GALLINULES seeming to be two adults and two young of
the year. It’s nice to know that Common
Gallinules raised a family at that site as nesting pairs in New Brunswick are
not common. PIED-BILLED GREBES were
diving for snacks but were backlight so needed some heavy adjusting to bring
out the features, so maybe not the best image for identifying the prey
items. A GREAT BLUE HERON was
flying about and landed behind some CATTAILS as an interesting
photo. Many dragonflies were hovering
about and dashing here and there but only one DOT-TAILED WHITEFACE DRAGONFLY
posed long enough for a rear facing shot. Brian was also able to get a
family of COMMON MERGANSERS as well as ROUND LEAF DOGWOOD in
fruit, SNEEZEWORT still in bloom and a pair of LANCE-TIPPED DARNER
DRAGONFLIES.
**Mac Wilmot’s
grandson Andy Stultz shares photos with us of nature he comes across when
traveling northern waters on the icebreaker Louis St-Laurent. He sends a photos of a huge POLAR BEAR pawprint
and a nearby tuft of hair he photographed near Bellot Strait in Nunavut.
**Gordon
Rattray adds to the buy and sell section of the Nature Moncton Website with a
Nikon D-5000 DSLR camera, charger, two batteries and manual. It is a12.9 Megapixel camera and the viewer
rotates for ease of use. The body only
price is $400.00 and new 18-55 Lens is $125.00.
For information contact Gordon at gordonr@explornet.ca
. Some photos of the units are attached.
Nelson Poirier,
Nature Moncton
