August 12,
2023
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**Jim Johnson in Scotch settlement reports he is hosting 30-40 Ruby-throated Hummingbirds at the moment.
(Editor’s note: this is the time of year when the
population of Ruby-throated Hummingbirds is at its highest. The females have
completed nest care, the young-of-the-year are out and feeding on their own,
and the males have not left yet. The males normally start migrating south by
mid-August; however, the females and young-of-the-year will stay until September.
They are no doubt waving a wing goodbye to the combative males!)
** Jane LeBlanc and Nature Moncton member Judith Ives
went on a pelagic bird tour with Alain Clavette off Grand Manan on Thursday.
Very rough seas but clear conditions met them. They went out past Gannet Rock,
about 25 nautical miles and found lifer birds for almost everyone on board.
Jane got decent photos of Great Shearwaters, which were following the
boat, as well as documentary photos of a 1st Summer Pomarine Jaeger. Many other birds will undoubtedly
be on Alain's Facebook page (including a lifer for him).
Then the Humpback Whales put on a show. At
least 15 were spotted. They went under the boat several times, and when a
microphone was lowered into the water, they were heard singing. Then, to cap it
all, there were at least 4 breaches, which no one on board got photos of, but
were very exciting, nonetheless.
**John Massey took a photo recently of a little
waterfall and wonders how there appear to be colours in the water when to his eyes,
it was straight clear water.
Brian Stone offers a suggestion commenting:
” A camera can ‘see’
and record light, and amounts of light, that our eyes can't see. It may have
just taken a slightly longer exposure that saturated the colours a bit more
than our eyes do, or maybe it just caught a momentary optimal reflection angle.”
**Aldo Dorio got a photo of a Cape May Warbler that dropped by his Neguac yard.
Photographs of fall warblers can be confusing and the editor stands to be corrected.
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
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