Nature Moncton Nature News: August 9 2023

NATURE MONCTON NATURE NEWS

August 9, 2023

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**Tonight’s Nature Moncton Wednesday night walk (August 9) write-up and directions below:

**Many of the regular Nature Moncton Wednesday night walk participants will have fond memories of the August 2 walk at Saisbury’s Highland Park. We are just going to move down the road a bit this week for a potential repeat of that great night. The write-up is below:

This Wednesday night's summer Nature Moncton walk (August 9) will be around the Salisbury Municipal Wastewater Lagoons and Wetland Ponds. We will first check the lagoons and see the ducks, gulls, and swallows that enjoy this area. From there, we will go down a couple of easily navigated, somewhat steep slopes to get down to the ponds but this area is mowed and can also be accessed with a more gradual slope if needed. The trails around the ponds are groomed. Once at the pond area we will cross a dyke with water on both sides and move on to more ponds on the right with the river on the left. A beautiful walk; bring bug spray. A 6:30 start will give us more daylight time, so we are back up the grades before dark.

The location is Salisbury Municipal Wastewater Treatment Facility, Government Road, Salisbury, NB E4J 1Z1.

Gov't Road is off the Salisbury Road/ Highway 106, within the Town Limits. Silver Meadows Trailer Park is on the right once you go down Government Road, and the Treatment Plant is on the left. Parking is available as you drive up to the gates.

David Miller and Lois Budd will be your evening guides.

**Gordon Rattray joined other hikers on the Nature Moncton walk on August 2 at Salisbury Highland Park. It was a very nice evening for a walk, and the group observed many specimens of nature’s offerings. Gordon captured some of these with his camera and shares some photos for today’s edition.

(Editor’s note: several of Gordon’s great labelled photos are attached.)

**Jewelweed a.k.a. Touch-me-not is sporting beautiful blooms at the moment. The literature points out that this plant supplies a very high concentration of fructose, reaching concentrations of 40%. This is why it is so attractive to the Ruby-throated Hummingbird at this time of year for potent refueling stops.
Mac Wilmot captured a video of that action. Check it out at the link below:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bgslbt8il6tzsdnjbjnc5/Hummingbird-Jewelweed-Buffet.mp4?rlkey=a57ug9zd82pqtsgqpnpyrfuwq&dl=0

**Louise Nichols was on the Westcock dyke (near Sackville) area on Tuesday and came across a number of Seaside Lady Beetles and was able to get a nice photograph suspecting it to be on Seaside Goldenrod.

This is only the second time a photo of this Lady Beetle has been submitted to Nature News; however, Louise did see them in number, so they must be at least locally common.

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Nature Moncton