NATURE MONCTON NATURE INFORMATION LINE
Jan 8, 2022 (Saturday)
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**Dale Halfpenny was able
to photograph a Baltimore Oriole through his home window in Stilesville during the early part
of Friday’s snowstorm. It seemed to be taking a liking to frozen Honeycrisp
apples.
From Dale’s photos, it
would appear to be an adult male.
**The Eastern Bluebird showed up in
the storm Friday afternoon in Stella and Jean Paul's Bouctouche yard to eat some
Mountain Ash berries that Stella put close to one of the feeders. It also
visited the suet feeder. The Northern Cardinal also came to the feeders during
the storm.
The American Robins were plentiful
with approximately 200 that the LeBlanc’s could see from their house in the
nearby trees earlier in the morning.
**Lori Bateman shares some interesting photos of a
Porcupine den site that is going to be unable to get in its den soon if it
doesn't clean up a bit! The tree is a White Pine, one of several that size in
the back woods of her home. Lori comments the animal grazes in an adjoining
hayfield (Editor's note: maybe not today!) and is partial to nibbling on a Tamarack tree. The Tamarack is a porcupine favourite.
**Barb Jennings took a drive to the Pointe-du-Chene wharf mid afternoon on Thursday to find a
perched Snowy Owl. They watched it for 2 hours and it stayed in the same
spot, grooming itself and taking in the scenery.
It would appear like a significant number of Snowy
Owls are joining us in New Brunswick this winter. Always a treat to be in the
right place at the time to have an audience with this beautiful owl!
**Our local Santa Claus (Fred Richards) has been busy
in this workshop assembling bird nest boxes that can be used by Tree Swallows,
Eastern Bluebirds, Black-capped Chickadees, and occasionally Flying Squirrels.
These will be available free of charge to Nature Moncton members or $20 to non-members.
Anyone can reserve the number they would like by
sending an email to susan_richards@rogers.com or by telephone 334-0100. They should be up and
installed ready for patrons to peruse by early April.
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Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
