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**Brian
Coyle was out to two of his
trail cameras Monday afternoon and found a fairly fresh set of Moose
tracks, alongside a Beaver pond and right by his camera. He was very
delighted to see that the Moose stopped to give the camera the once over. He
only had this camera at this location, at the end of a Beaver dam, for one
week. The very next video is of this momma Bobcat scent marking and then
her kitten jumps down beside her...
Also, he had a flock of American
Robins of approximately 50 individuals, devouring the great abundance of
Mountain Ash berries, yesterday. Then there was this inquisitive Beaver....
and also large flocks of White-Throated Sparrows. There were
a total of 5 Bumblebees warming and feeding themselves on a solitary
Sunflower. It was a busy day...
He found some Honey mushrooms,
at the base of a dead Trembling Aspen and send photos.
Check out the Moose and Bobcat visits
at the attached links below:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/gb59juhbktstg05/STC_0004%20%2812%29_x264.mp4?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/enlw5a5isywjiuu/STC_0003%20%2815%29_x264.mp4?dl=0
**Jim
Johnson is another to see Eastern Bluebirds around his Scotch Settlement
home that has ample nest boxes to scout out for next season. Jim does not
recall seeing them around before in October although he has had them nest in
his yard. Seeing Eastern Bluebirds in the fall is getting more common as the
population grows as these flocks of bluebirds can stay with us very late into
fall often scouting out nest boxes.
Jim
comments American Kestrels are quite plentiful in the fields around his
home.
Jim also
saw 10 Killdeer in a soybean field on Saturday, a species he has not
seen in some time; not sure what is attracting them to the soybean field.
**Lisa
Morris had a Black-capped Chickadee take Nature Moncton nest box # 404
this year. She cleaned out the nest box this past weekend to show a photo of
the very typical nesting material of the Black-capped Chickadee being dried
moss with hair or feathers in the bowl.
Chickadees
seemed to like the Nature Moncton boxes this year as I had two chickadee
occupied and will not be checking over a dozen more until next spring. Lisa got
a short video of the tenant exiting the box on July 12, possibly a second brood
by then. Check out the video link below:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zh7i15srqua50mz/IMG_5203.MOV?dl=0
**Rosita Lanteigne sends a photo of one of our light-coloured coral mushrooms. The light-coloured oh my goodness ones can be hard to be sure of ID without closely checking specific parts. I am suspecting the Crown-tipped Coral but not confident. As far as I am aware, no corals are toxic, but some are bitter.
**Aldo
Dorio reports there didn’t seem to be many birds at Hay Island on Monday but
there surely were a few of interest. Aldo photographed 2 Red Knots in
non-breeding plumage, a shorebird species we don’t see often see in this area
as we are not on their main migration route and the eastern population has
declined due to overharvesting of one of their favourite fodder sources,
Horseshoe Crab eggs.
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
