NATURE MONCTON INFORMATION LINE, 21 August
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**Louise
Nichols had a rare YELLOW
LADIES’-TRESSES ORCHID appear in her Aulac yard last year that Matthew Pace
at the New York Botanical Garden felt was indeed a Yellow Ladies’-tresses. He
is considered an expert on Ladies’-tresses. This year Louise found 4 new plants
in the same location, so we are assuming them all to be Yellow Ladies’-tresses.
Louise
also recorded some other property observations in photos, one of an AMERICAN TOAD that seems to be hanging
out in one spot by a cabin in the woods nearby.
Birds
were moving quite a bit late Friday afternoon and evening, especially PALM WARBLERS. She was seeing as many
as 8 of these at a time. The same thing happened last year at the same time.
Louise suspected they nested in the bog, and now all the Palm Warblers are on
the move. Other photos of birds that she noted on Friday evening included a RED-EYED VIREO with a juicy
caterpillar.
**Gordon
Rattray took a trip to Johnson’s Mills on Friday, noting that generally numbers
were low. He watched one group of about 100, mostly SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS and a few SEMIPALMATED
SANDPIPERS. One SHORT-BILLED
DOWITCHER was with them. A second group had several thousand, but they were
scared off by a PEREGRINE FALCON
which Gordon captured in a flight photo.
**Two GREAT
EGRETS are lingering in the Hillsborough Wetland Ponds and Gray Brook Marsh
area. Jan Tingley spotted one there in the lower pond by the Petitcodiac River
on Friday.
**Debbie
Batog got quite a surprise from the result of just one SUNFLOWER seed that produced a plant with 10 blooms already out and
3 more still to open down the stalk. This would be very unusual for a plant
that ordinarily produces one bloom per plant.
**Great
to see all these shorebird photos coming in. It’s that time. Aldo Dorio
photographed a LEAST SANDPIPER at
Hay Island perched on an oyster shell. It really shows the size of our smallest
peep. The yellowish legs, brown tones, and slight droop to the apex of the bill
show well.
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