May 29, 2023
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**Jamie Burris sends a photo of a spider that his Grandkids Oliver, Eli, and Zoe Best
found and photographed. It is a Boreal Tufted Jumping Spider. Jamie
comments that he has never seen one before, noting the huge eyes for the size of
the spider and the very noticeable bright orange collar. We have never had a
photo of this spider species submitted to Nature News.
Jamie also had a male Eastern Bluebird singing in his Riverview backyard on Sunday. A
very promising indication it may nest in the area.
**Aldo Dorio is noting that the raft of 75 Black Scoter continues to be present at
Hay Island.
Aldo also spotted and photographed an adult
breeding plumage Laughing Gull, a
very handsome dude indeed! It was alone, which would be expected of this uncommon visitor to NB.
**Sterling Marsh visited the Arthur Street lagoon
in Memramcook on Sunday to photograph a pair of American Wigeon, and the
finely dressed duo of a Northern Pintail and a Northern Shoveler duck.
**
Brian Stone spent
Saturday in Upham visiting family and sending a few photos from the area and
Hampton lagoon. Along the road to Upham, a Bald Eagle was sitting on the
side of its nest high in a large pine tree.
After some family time, Brian headed to Hampton, and at the lagoons, he noted low numbers of birds but still came away with a close-up of a Veery and a Red-eyed Vireo. In the third pond, a small family of Common Goldeneye Ducks was diving and feeding undisturbed, and a few other adult female goldeneyes were in the same pond.
Many fresh Hudsonian Whiteface Dragonflies were out and about
along the walking path, and White-tailed Deer seemed to be always near.
(Editor's note: note the White-tailed Deer in Brian's photo is shedding its winter coat of dull brown hollow hair to take on the rich chestnut-coloured pelage of summer)
Back at the Upham yard, a Magnolia Warbler patrolled the tree line behind the house, and Brian took a few photos from the back deck. Before going out on the deck, Brian had taken some pictures of the American Robin fledgeling in its nest above the deck discreetly through a side window from inside. It left the nest soon after and joined its sibling that had fledged earlier in the day and hopefully is doing well wherever it might be.
While Brian was taking photos of a Northern Azure Butterfly out in the
yard, he noticed a dragonfly land on a branch nearby, and he soon realized that
it was one he had not seen before, which turned out to be a female Uhler’s
Sundragon Dragonfly.
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
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