NATURE
MONCTON NATURE NEWS
March 5,
2022 (Saturday)
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**John
Inman in Harvey, Albert County puts out meat scraps in his yard each winter
that a Red-tailed Hawk has visited to dine upon for several winters. Each year
about this time, it leaves to pursue its summer mission. On Friday, Bald Eagles
arrived to check out the unfinished Red-tailed Hawk meals to get photographed
by John.
**Pat Gibbs has had 3 Ring-necked Pheasants, one hen occasionally and two cocks almost every day and she suspects they are living in the brush in the small triangular area squashed between the back of her garage and a fence. Up until Friday, the cocks seemed to be the best of buddies. However, spring fever may have changed that!
Pat looked
out after lunch and discovered tracks outside her window which had not been
there before lunch. You need to click to see the image full size to see
both wing/tail prints of the disagreement.
The two
prints of spread wings and tracks circling in a small area suggest to Pat they
weren't going to the ground feeders for food but likely attacking each other.
**Anna Tucker reports
that the House Sparrow cluster at the corner of Alma and Church St. in Moncton
are starting to vocalize very loudly.
Daryl Doucette also commented that he heard the same thing around some thick
shrubbery near the Tim Horton’s location on Collishaw Street in Moncton
which is near the Co-op feed mill.
These are 2
remnant hangouts for House Sparrows in the city although I expect there are
more.
**Brian Stone stepped out of his family's home in
Dartmouth early on Friday morning to hear the chipping call of a Northern
Cardinal. After a ten-minute search with binoculars he found the female
cardinal in a neighbor's shrubbery across the street. He was unable to locate a
male and was not sure if one was even present, but he heard the regular
cardinal call along with the chipping type sound so maybe one was around
somewhere.
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
