NATURE MONCTON INFORMATION LINE, August 30, 2021 (Monday)
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Info Line #: 506-384-6397 (384-NEWS)
**Nature Moncton’s last Tuesday Evening Outing of the season is on for tomorrow night, write up repeated at the end of this message and up-front tomorrow.
**Jane Leblanc spotted a very fresh male MONARCH BUTTERFLY in her St. Martins yard on Sunday. Chances are this butterfly will start making its way to Mexico to overwinter. Note the dark spots on the hind wing veins to indicate the male.
An AMERICAN TOAD also co-operated nicely for a photo, as did two dragonflies. A WHITE FACED MEADOWHAWK and a SHADOW DARNER. Nice to see those large darners.
**Fred Dube got a nice photo of a LADY BEETLE larva. This is the time we can expect the hatched eggs of the Lady Beetles as it is the larval stage that feeds heavily on aphids.
**Aldo Dorio photographed a RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD in female plumage. The young-of -the-year first molt to female plumage before the males take on their first first male plumage indicators so this specimen could be either gender.
**Tomorrow night’s outing attached below:
Tuesday Evening Outing. August 31., 2021
This week’s outing will be the last of this season. We hope you have enjoyed them and would be interested in hearing suggestions for improvements and possible locations for next year.
We will be meeting at 31 Rockland No. 1 Road, Taylor Village (instructions to follow) to start a walk at 6:30 PM. We will begin the walk through an area that nature is working at reclaiming then follow along the Memramcook River for about a kilometer to a Ducks Unlimited Pond. The walking surface will be mostly grass or an old roadway. Some of the things we may see include Aboiteau, dykes, a wide range of flora, various hawks, Bald eagles, Shore birds, Marsh birds and ducks, Muskrat, Mink, Weasel, Beaver, White tailed deer and a million or so small birds. We hope you can make it.
To get to the event ….. https://goo.gl/maps/tLLMVBBzvG2a1KJ7A
Moncton
NB
From Main St/NB-106 E
Continue to follow NB-106 E
1.8 km
Slight right onto Acadie Ave/NB-106 E
Continue to follow NB-106 E
18.2 km
Turn right onto Central St
3.1 km
Just past the Irving
Stay left on Central St
4.6 km
Turn left onto Rockland No1 Rd
Destination will be on the left
950 m
31 Rockland No1 Rd
Taylor Village, NB E4K 2R1
Nelson Poirier,
Nature Moncton
