Nature Moncton Nature News: August 5 2021

NATURE MONCTON INFORMATION LINE, September 5, 2021 (Sunday)

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** The Nature Moncton field trip to Petit-Cap is on today at 1:30 pm at the Petit-Cap site. All information on the changes is on the website at www.naturemoncton.com under “Upcoming Events.”

Postpone of one day turns out to be a wise move! A great day for a field trip.

** Gordon Rattray spent the rather wet day Saturday photographing some later season plants that are in peak bloom at the moment and so important for many members of Mother Nature’s community that make use of the pollen and nectar performing their much-needed pollinating in exchange. GOLDENRODS are a major performer at the moment and Gordon has separated and identified several of them as well as SEA LAVENDER that is now so common on salt marshes along with SEASIDE GOLDENROD. We tend to take these for granted, but we shouldn’t. Their presence is important as well as colourful.

** Aldo Dorio got a photograph of a young-of-the-year SPOTTED SANDPIPER at Hay Island on Saturday. The juvenile bird has a clean white belly and chest area without the heavy spotting of the adult. Aldo is also seeing fall-plumaged YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS at Hay Island.

**Brian Stone walked the trail at Highland Park in Salisbury on Saturday for an easy walk to warm up for Sunday's Nature Moncton shorebird outing. Some wildlife such as the PIED-BILLED GREBES with their young and an immature BALD EAGLE did not cooperate for a photo, but the COMMON GALLINULE family, although spread out across the pond, was more photogenic this time. Also, AMERICAN WIGEONS were present in a group of nearly a dozen near a group of 3 BLUE-WINGED TEALS. A NORTHERN FLICKER displayed its wings in flight and a MEADOWHAWK DRAGONFLY posed near a patch of SNEEZEWORT flowers.