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MONCTON NATURE INFORMATION LINE, Nov 7, 2021 (Sunday)
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**Many
of the senior community who follow this blog will remember the great
presentations and information sharing of Dan Busby when he was a biologist at
the Canadian Wildlife Service in Sackville. Dan retired to Ontario but now back
living in Nova Scotia and photographed the Steller’s
Sea Eagle in Falmouth, Nova Scotia on Thursday, November 4. Dan continues
to share and has shared photographs he got of the eagle. Dan got the attached
photos as it flew off and has not been located since but is no doubt wondering
about and subject to a surprise audience somewhere as it is assumed to be the
same one that has been popping up in New Brunswick and Québec since spring. I
am attaching all 7 of Dan’s photos as I’m sure this is a bird many of us cannot
get enough of!
Thank
you for sharing your good fortune, Dan Busby. It's just like being there.
**Yvette
Richard got a photo of a male Bufflehead
and 2 Lesser Scaup at the Bouctouche Lagoon on Tuesday.
Note the head colour sheen in the sun of the male Bufflehead. As well note the
smaller size of the Lesser Scaup aside the small Bufflehead. Greater Scaup
would be larger which could be hard to detect if not something to compare it
to.
Yvette
also captured a photo of the waxing
crescent Moon on Saturday evening. It was full and out of our vision on
November 4 but now is just starting to appear to us as Yvette’s photo shows.
She also got the crescent Moon and the planet Venus in one frame during
Saturday’s pleasant clear sky evening.
**More great Northern Cardinal reports and keep them coming! Bill and Marguerite Windsor have had a pair of Northern Cardinals coming to their Salisbury yard for 3 days and got photos of them on Saturday.
A cardinal in your yard is one thing but a pair is a super bonus, hopefully considering it as a territory for next season if they have not done that already in their secretive ways.
**John Massey
checked 6 of his bird nest boxes that
he had put up this spring at Jolicure. Three were not used. Two had Tree
Swallow nests but no unhatched eggs or dead birds. At the last one of the day when
John looked in he thought that there was a really nice nest with feathers but
when placing his hand in to feel if there were any unhatched eggs he realized
there were two Flying Squirrels curled up and asleep. The one he touched simply
looked at him and went back to sleep.
It is
always a reward to encounter wildlife and they ignore our presence and go about
your day.
** Gordon Rattray had a pair of Great Blue Herons fly in from a marshy area to a tree in his Weldon
back yard on Saturday to get some great photos. They appear to be juveniles.
**Jane
LeBlanc still has a blooming Witch Hazel shrub in her St. Martins yard which is
the expected blooming period for this shrub. A last years developed seed pod is
aside the bloom. A unique plant indeed.
Jane also
had a late Common Grackle drop by her yard on Saturday and spotted a juvenile
Bald Eagle appearing to be nearing maturity by the extensive amount of yellow
on the bill and showing the variable plumage the Bald Eagle can have as it
takes on mature plumage.
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
