NATURE
MONCTON NATURE NEWS
June 7,
2022 (Tuesday)
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**Nature Moncton Activities Committee
chairperson Louise Nichols advises the limit of 20 participants to travel on
arranged boats to Gagetown Island for the Nature Moncton field trip scheduled for
July 16 is fully booked. Louise can still take names for a waiting list at
nicholsl@eastlink.ca as cancellations often happen. Participants who may want
to join on other watercraft are welcome.
** Jamie Burris photographed some recent
bird activities in their backyard. A flock of 10 Cedar Waxwings came in
and cleaned up last years Highbush Cranberries. They are normally gone before
the leaves open but this year the bush was in bloom! (This was posted yesterday
but the photo did not attach so is repeated)
**The big,
beautiful Giant Silkworm Moths and large Sphinx Moths are starting to appear,
and we can expect to see many more photos of these beauties appearing over the
next weeks. Anita Cannon forwards a photo of the large Polyphemus Moth
sent to her
by a friend in Sackville.
**Jane LeBlanc in St. Martins saw a Red Fox behind a neighbour's house while she was visiting, and got
a documentary shot. It was being harassed by crows.
**Over the weekend
Gordon Rattray visited several sites in the Hillsborough area seeking spring
flowers. Gordon found several of our spring bloomers. At Whiterock Recreation
Area, he got pictures of a Watercress, a Jack-in-the-pulpit with
one showing the spadix and samples of the Wild Sarsaparilla and a Yellow
Lady’s Slipper. Growing with the Yellow Lady’s Slipper were several Hyssop-leaved
Fleabane. At Gray’s Island, Gordon found Clintonia in full
bloom and False Solomon’s Seal. Note in that photo an immature Rose
Twisted-stalk.
**Nelson
Poirier recently photographed a Forest Tent Caterpillar. This photo was
destined to appear yesterday to point out the physical differences between the Eastern
Tent Caterpillar which Brian Stone had submitted a photo of. Both of these are
properly placed and labelled today to correct the labelling misfire of
yesterday.
The Forest tent Caterpillar does
not actually build tents as does the Eastern Tent Caterpillar. The two look
similar but note the broken line of pale spots (footprints) down the back of
the Forest tent Caterpillar where the Eastern Tent Caterpillar line on the back
is unbroken.
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
