Nature Moncton Nature News: Jan 4 2022

NATURE MONCTON NATURE NEWS

Jan 4, 2023

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**2023 is surely moving along quickly and January Nature Moncton meeting night in a few short weeks on January 17 is a special time for us to share special moments of the past year with the group. Start planning your presentation immediately to be ready for a pleasant night of memories.

NATURE MONCTON MEMBERS' NIGHT

TUESDAY JANUARY 17TH 2023, 7:00 PM

ROTARY PAVILION, MAPLETON PARK

Have you had an interesting encounter with nature in the past year? Have you taken some good photos of birds, insects, animals or anything else in the various habitats of New Brunswick? The January Nature Moncton meeting belongs to members like you who would like to share their photos and stories of that world in short 15-minute presentations.

If you have something you’d like to share, contact Fred Richards at fredrichards@rogers.com to put your name on the program.

Let’s start 2023 off the right way – by sharing with one another our positive experiences of the natural world around us!

**Richard Blaquiere heard back about the second banded Ring-billed Gull that he photographed on 31 Dec 2022 at the Parkway Mall parking lot in Saint John. It turns out that
gull was banded as a sub-adult at the Price Chopper Plaza in Worcester, Massachusetts on 19 Nov 2012. Assuming a hatch date of June 2011, and if calculations are correct, it would now be approximately 12.5 years old.
(Editor’s note: it is interesting to note the travels of bird species with the use of leg bands. These two birds Richard has followed were banded in Massachusetts but have chosen the same spot repeatedly to visit in New Brunswick).

**Aldo Dorio photographed a Red Fox astutely listening for prey possibilities beneath the snow near his Neguac home.
This Red Fox appears in prime condition.
It is a wonderful opportunity to study the track and trail pattern of a certain mammal when one can actually see it and immediately look at the imprints left, especially measuring the stride (the distance between tracks). In this case, it should measure 12–18 inches with the track imprint being typical canine but quite ‘fuzzy’ due to the heavily haired foot of the Red Fox compared to a Coyote and domestic Dog).
Aldo also got a photograph of the pleasant rising sun which we can now expect to see a few minutes earlier every morning.