NATURE
MONCTON NATURE INFORMATION LINE, Oct. 14, 2021 (Thursday)
To respond by e-mail, please address your message to the information line editor, nelsonpoirier435@gmail.com .
Please
advise the editor at nelsonpoirier435@gmail.com
if any errors are noted in wording or photo labelling.
For more information on Nature Moncton, check the website at www.naturemoncton.com .
Edited by:
Nelson Poirier nelsonpoirier435@gmail.com
Info Line
# 506-384-6397 (384-NEWS)
**The EOS
(Eco-energy) group is sponsoring a zoom presentation today, Thursday, at noon
on fall tree care and gardening with Harold Popma. I was not able to
copy/paste the whole message, but the link below will immediately give you
another link to join in if you wish.
Very late
notice but just got the message myself.
|
Interested in
getting your garden ready for winter? This Thursday (today) Dr. Popma will be
presenting some basics of fall tree care but will also be on hand to answer
any gardening questions you may have. He's an experienced gardener with over
40 years of experience in Sackville, NB. |
|
Thursday, October
14th 12:00 PM - 1:00
PM Please register at: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0uc-uuqjopG9E2foj7DGB37_0CP1DW33uP |
**On Wednesday, Yvette Richard again had a flock of 12 Eastern Bluebirds pay a visit checking out a nest box. One showed its displeasure at a Song Sparrow around the nest box.
Yvette also got a nice photo of the Common Eastern Bumblebee, our largest, and shows how large it is compared to a thumb aside it to be over an inch in length. On Thursday, she noticed a different bee with its stinger into the hind end of a larger bee. Yvette felt the stinger was stuck and both seemed to be dying, assuming a conflict in progress.
Yvette
surprised her resident male Ring-necked Pheasant Phil who was quick to give her
a rear fly off view.
**The Spindle-shaped
Yellow Coral mushroom is always an eyecatcher. Bev Schneider photographed a
colourful clump in the Mactaquac area. It seems to be flourishing this year as
are many other mushroom species.
**Pat Gibbs photographed a Garter Snake soaking up the warmth of asphalt as the temperature drops. It was on the Humphrey Brook trail. It was crawling slowly and 12 to 15 in. long which is on the small side for a Garter snake so probably a younger one.
**Brian
Stone spent 2 hours at Highland Park in Salisbury on Wednesday searching for
photo subjects and was almost mesmerized by the spectacle of many hundreds of
RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS flying above the ponds in large groups of 80 or more
birds. Large numbers of them perched in the cattails and at times and would fly
up and return in large waves. After finally getting enough images to satisfy
the most obsessive photographer Brian moved on to search the rest of the ponds
for interesting occupants and found lots of GREEN-WINGED TEALS were
present. An AMERICAN COOT was cruising around the central area of the
pond and several PIED-BILLED GREBES were foraging and finding large
tadpoles to be an acceptable lunch. One juvenile COMMON GALLINULE was
seen and remained still long enough to take a nice photo.
Brian made a
cell phone video of the birds flying up and down (like shorebird flocks) and was
unhappy with the resolution but shares it at the link below.
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
