NATURE MONCTON NATURE NEWS
June 13,
2022 (Monday)
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**John Inman in Harvey, Albert County had a Brown Thrasher
drop by his feeder yard to sample some cracked corn and then seemed to
really vocalize back and forth with the resident catbird. John was unable
to translate the discussion!!
** Louise Nichols was out before sunrise on Sunday
morning to do her marsh monitoring survey at Eddy Rd. Marsh in Amherst,
NS. She was able to get 5 of the target marsh species which were Pied-billed
Grebe, Sora, Virginia Rail, American Bittern and Marsh
Wren. Most of these secretive marsh birds remained secretive and were
only heard rather than seen except for one of the Pied-billed Grebes that
popped up in front of Louise, allowing for some close-up photos. The
marsh was full of the song of Mink Frogs, sounding like rocks clicking
together. Louise noticed many frogs on the surface of the water and wondered
if they were all Mink Frogs, but she couldn't be sure. She shares one
photo to show the numerous frog heads peeking up from the water. Various
flowering plants were in bloom, the most beautiful being the Blue Flag Iris
and Honeysuckle bushes. Louise startled a White-tailed Deer
right in front of her which bounded quickly away before she had a chance to
lift her camera.
**The Maidenhair
Fern is not a common fern in New Brunswick and always a treat to find. Gart
Bishop shares a photo of a pleasant find of this fern on a trail in the
Florenceville area recently.
**Aldo Dorio photographed 3 birds at Hay Island on
Sunday that were a challenge for the editor until Gilles Belliveau offered an
opinion, suspecting one photo to be a Veery, a second one to be a Hermit Thrush
that is showing the reddish tail with the light brown mantle and head area, and
the third one to be a Red-eyed Vireo. (Editors note: note the bright green new
foliage of the Tamarack tree in the Red-eyed Vireo photo).
**Yolande LeBlanc’s American Robin in Memramcook did
indeed make its nest inside the nest box designed for Eastern Phoebe, not on
top of it as Nelson Poirier’s did!
**Bob Blake awoke Sunday morning to at first think a group of Raccoons
damaged his birdfeeder set-up, but after trying to straighten it out to where it
should be, he suspected a Black Bear(s) as it was very difficult to straighten
again. Raccoons may be strong but not this strong. The hanging arms are 1/2”
thick and pole is 1 1/4” thick and were very hard to straighten again.
**On
Saturday Brian Stone visited Fred Richard's place in Taylor Village as he was
in the area and picked up some of the Nature Moncton greeting cards that are
for sale. He then walked around the property with Fred and photographed a few
of the many interesting wildlife subjects populating the land. Bees and
butterflies were plentiful, and Brian got photos of Canadian Tiger
Swallowtail Butterflies, Common Ringlet Butterflies, Arctic
Skipper Butterflies, Northern Azure Butterflies. Northern
Crescent Butterflies, and some of the many Honeybees pollinating
flowers from the several hives on the property. Two of the many dragonflies
around Fred's ponds photographed were a male Common Whitetail Dragonfly,
with one wing missing, and a Four-spotted Skimmer Dragonfly. Two small
moths were noted, a Carpet Moth and a Bluish Spring Moth. Two of
the pesky Horseflies were photographed, one on an interestingly fuzzy
leaf and another laying an egg mass on a blade of grass in the pond. Along the
edge of that pond a Leopard Frog was happy to allow its image to be
recorded for the nature blog. In a further field a White-tailed Deer got
up from its rest in the tall grass and stood up for a good look at the
intruders while a Tree Swallow poked its head out of one of the many
nest boxes there.
On his way back, Brian stopped in at the Arthur/Grand Pre St. lagoon in Memramcook and photographed one of the 2 Northern Pintail Ducks present.
Brian
continued on past Moncton to the Taylor Rd. in Second North River and put the
camera to work again getting a nice close up of 2 Phantom Craneflies
mating. A male Yellow-bellied Sapsucker was tapping on a tree beside the
road, and Brian sadly just missed getting a photo of a large Garter Snake that
managed to avoid both Brian and his camera. A Harpoon Clubtail Dragonfly
and a Beaverpond Baskettail Dragonfly stopped long enough for an image
and many more were around that were not so cooperative. Due to recent rains the
rocky road past the large beaver dam was flooded deeply due to the dam
overflowing.
**Nelson
Poirier is very pleased to announce the birth of a clutch of Mourning Doves
nestled on top of an Eastern Phoebe nest box on the back wall of his home on
Monday morning.
All
congratulatory messages will be passed on to the happy mother!
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
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