NATURE MONCTON INFORMATION LINE, September 09, 2021 (Thursday)
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Info Line # 506-384-6397 (384-NEWS)
** Yvette Richard sends a photo of a COMMON GALLINULE young-of-the-year
taken at Salisbury Highland Park on Tuesday. It is great to know that this
species nested successfully at that site and has provided great photo
opportunities. Yvette also got a photo of a male WOOD DUCK in eclipse plumage as well as a nice photo of an immature
male COMMON YELLOWTHROAT WARBLER at McManus Pond in Memramcook. The
immature male Common Yellowthroat warbler has some black on the face near the
eye to differentiate it from the female.
**Deana
and Peter Gadd spotted a bird on a wire as they drove through Oak Point (north
of Miramichi) Wednesday morning. They realized it was unusual and were only
able to get a couple of distant photos, but enough to confirm its
identification as a WESTERN KINGBIRD. The Western Kingbird seems to have
become a regular straggler into the Maritimes this time of year to make it a
special sighting. Its normal range is western US extending slightly into
western Canada.
**Brian and
Annette Stone walked the beach at Petit Cap on Wednesday and send some photos
of the shorebirds and other birds seen there. They arrived shortly after high
tide and as the water receded some shorebirds began foraging along the water's
edge and on the newly exposed sand bars. Seen were several SANDERLINGS,
a couple dozen SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS and LEAST SANDPIPERS, and
a few SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS. One of the sandpipers and plovers were
tagged.
Overhead a MERLIN flew
past over the water and an OSPREY was hunting on the other side of the
dune. A lone RING-BILLED GULL soared by, and a CASPIAN TERN
hovered and hunted close to the shore. One DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANT
showed up briefly and a dozen GREAT BLUE HERONS were resting in the
grass beyond the dune.
This special shorebird/bird site
always seems to provide a different show depending on the tide level as
demonstrated from the difference from the Nature Moncton group visit there on
Sunday. No surprise Llamas or Alpacas (space poodles) on Wednesday!!
** It’s looking like a great week ahead for mushroom proliferation as it has been for several periods over the summer. A very common one in the woods is the colourful, SPINDLE-SHAPED YELLOW CORAL with an attached photo with a few stalks laid beside the main clump to illustrate individual stalks when removed from the main clump. It is classed as edible, but I have not partaken personally.
This mushroom was featured on a
Canadian stamp issue several years ago.
Nelson Poirier,
Nature Moncton
