NATURE MONCTON NATURE INFORMATION
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**John Inman at 225 Mary’s Point Road
in Harvey shares a photo of an immature Red-headed Woodpecker that
arrived at his feeder area on Monday afternoon. John comments his feeder area
is being patrolled by a Sharp-shinned Hawk and a Merlin so hoping his special
immature visitor is wary.
**Sterling Marsh got a pleasant
surprise on Sunday while tending his birdfeeders to find he was under constant
observation by a Weasel. It, of course, is still in its brown top and
white under summer pelage but will be taking on completely white pelage except
for a black tail tip in a few months.
Sterling comments he is hoping it is
open to accepting a contract on mouse control!
**After seeing a post about a Hen-of-the-Woods
mushroom last week, Gabriel Galant decided to check one of his reliable Oak
trees in Miramichi that he watches for this mushroom each year. He wasn’t
disappointed. He brought home 25 pounds of mushroom. The larger one was 16.5
pounds in the smaller one was 9 pounds. A rewarding hunt!
**Jane LeBlanc photographed a fresh-looking
male Monarch Butterfly while doing a shorebird survey with Ted Sears in
West Quaco, near St. Martens. Also seen; Common Loons, Common Eiders, Double-crested
Cormorants, Surf Scoters, Savannah Sparrows, American Pipits, and,
surprisingly, a beautiful male Wood Duck. It was the first one Ted Sears
had seen in saltwater.
Only shorebirds seen were a dozen Sanderlings.
They scattered when a Merlin did a flyby.
**This is an old, intended post but
held for identification until BugGuide felt confident this was the larva of a Syrphid
Fly a.k.a. Flower Fly. We have several species of these flies in New Brunswick,
and many imitate wasps as protection.
The original photo was submitted by
Susan Linkletter who found it on her parsley foliage.
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
