NATURE MONCTON INFORMATION LINE, August 8, 2021 (Sunday)
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** Aldo Dorio continues to get photos
of young-of-the-year warblers at Hay Island.
An adult male YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER continues to show its spring breeding plumage. Some others that Aldo is getting are hard to
get a handle on, as they are still in post-natal plumage and have not taken on
fall plumage as yet which in itself can be confusing in some warbler species.
Aldo also photographed an OSPREY visiting
Hay Island that would seem a bit ruffled and stained after a summer nesting
period. There was not a nesting pair at Hay Island as there has been in some
past years.
** I just received a copy of Rick
Cavasin’s Pocket Guide to Butterflies of the Maritimes, 3rd
edition. It is very well illustrated for
a smaller pictorial guide, with a lot of information packed into the legend,
which is very important to use to appreciate size, flight season, regional
status and more. It will be very helpful
to identify species, or at least narrow down the possibilities and then use
more expanded guides when necessary. I
notice it is helpful in narrowing down choices especially among the skippers,
commas and differentiating the Great Spangled Fritillary from Aphrodite
Fritillary. I’m glad to have it in my
arsenal for a quick guide and I suspect it will frequently be the first
reference. Information on how/where to
get a copy is in the link below.
https://www.maritimes.butterflyguide.ca/pocket.../maritimes
** The Nature Moncton Tuesday outing
this week in Moncton, meeting at 6:15 PM at the canteen at Centennial Park as
outlined in yesterday’s edition will be repeated in Monday’s and Tuesday’s
editions.
Nelson Poirier,
Nature Moncton
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