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Sept 13, 2022 (Tuesday)
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**Andrew Stultz (Mac Wilmot’s grandson) who is on board
the Coast Guard vessel Louis S. St. Laurent which is anchored off Jenny Lind Island, Nunavut, shares photos of a Peregrine Falcon that is joining them. Andrew says it
is leaving bird carcasses all over the place!
**Deana and Peter Gadd note the Pied-billed Grebes
have had 3, maybe 4, successful nests at Miramichi Marsh this past summer. There
is one late brood that has a lot of growing to do before they can migrate. In
the meantime, members of an earlier brood are undergoing what seems to be
intensive flight training. One hardly ever sees a Pied-billed Grebe fly once
they arrive in the spring. On Friday, Deana and Peter witnessed 2 young ones
running perhaps 50 or 60 meters into the on-coming breeze along the surface of
the water, their wings working as hard as possible, but flight never attained.
They would swim back down-wind and try again. They only saw 4 attempts as Peter
thinks the young grebes became self-conscious and moved to a more private part
of the pond!
**Yolande LeBlanc in Memramcook found her carrot patch
was hosting 3 more Black Swallowtail
Butterfly larval caterpillars on Monday. The first one she found is gone
assumedly passed on to the pupal stage which she hopes to find. The 3 she found
on Tuesday were all the same size, also looking like their pupal stages are soon to come.
Yolande comments “the carrots will not be harvested until all caterpillars have
gone to the next stage”.
** Jane LeBlanc in St. Martins has had lots of yard birds lately. A Black-and-White Warbler and Black-throated Green Warbler posed for photos.
Red-Eyed Vireo, Gray Catbird, Black-capped Chickadee
and Blue Jays did not.
**Aldo Dorio also noted birds on the move on Monday
seeing 3 Yellow-rumped Warblers on the Malpec Road near Neguac on Monday.
**Brian Stone shares a pleasant lichen photo.
Kendra Driscoll suggests this would appear to be a Cladonia (Pixie cup) nestled in the middle of a patch of moss. Many Cladonia species have two parts - a primary thallus usually made of "squamules" (smallish discrete lobes arising from the substrate) and a secondary thallus composed of taller cup or spire-like structures called "podetia".
Kendra also suggests noting the brown spore capsules on the moss.
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