NATURE
MONCTON NATURE NEWS
June 1,
2022 (Wednesday)
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** Jane LeBlanc
and her puppy went for a walk this morning and found Cedar Waxwings feasting on
the petals on her neighbour's apple tree, which is in flower.
**
Steve and Sue Berube walk the Mill Creek Nature Park in Riverview almost
every day and share some photos of the wildlife community there.
They found Pink
Lady’s Slippers in two of their four known locations in the park. Last year
they were discouraged that at least one of the spots was picked clean - no
flowers this year.
Sue’s photo
also includes a seed pod from last season that would be full of many
thousands of seeds ready to reproduce if just a few of them can find the right
habitat. The seeds of this plant carry very little endosperm and conditions
have to be perfect for reproduction.
Sue also
photographed a cooperative Eastern Garter Snake, and a Snowshoe Hare
in its rich brown pelage.
**Am
including just a few more photos of Andrew Darcy’s visit to the Black-bellied
Whistling Ducks we have been so fortunate to have stay for several days in
the Bathurst area. We seldom get visits from this species in New Brunswick and they often tend to be all too brief, and folks just don’t get to see them.
This group obviously found the hospitality too good to leave quickly!
Bob Blake
maintains daily weather statistics from his Second North River home and
compares what he recorded in May 2021 with May 2022. I’m attaching Bob’s table
below as he sent it:
always
interesting to note differences from one year to the next.
|
2021 |
2022 |
||
|
morning
temperatures |
daily highs
and rainfall |
morning
temperatures |
daily highs
and rainfall |
|
+20-1 day +16-1 +15-1 +14-1 +13-2 +11-3 +9-4 +8-8 +7-1 +6-6 +4-2 +2-1 149 mms.
rain 2 cms. snow |
+30-1 +28-2 +23-1 +22-2 +21-4 +19-3 |
19-1 +18-1 +17-3 +16-3 +15-3 +13-2 +12-3 +11-1 +10-1 +9-1 +8-2 +7-2 +6-2 +5-2 +4-2 +2-1 81 mms.
rain |
+31-1 +29-1 +28-1 +26-2 +24-5 +23-1 +22-5 +21-2 +19-3 |
**Susan Richards has been
busy folding and preparing greeting cards picturing some of the excellent
photos shared with Nature Moncton Nature News.
This has been a popular project and more information on how to get
packages of them are available from susan_richards@rogers.com or phone 506-334-0100.
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
