Nature Moncton Nature News: October 19 2023

Nature Moncton Nature News

October 19, 2023

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**Frank branch was pleased to have a Baltimore Oriole drop by his Paquetville feeder yard on Wednesday. It checked out the seed tray but was not impressed with the numerous Blue Jays and Red-winged Blackbirds.

It went all around the backyard, in the flower beds, and along the solarium windows and successfully caught all kinds of flies and other insects.

**Sterling Marsh was a bit amused to watch a Double-crested Cormorant fishing among the many human fishers at Pointe-du-Chene wharf on Wednesday.

**Aldo Dorio was still seeing Greater Yellowlegs at Hay Island on Wednesday.

**Brian Stone sends a few photos from the Hampton and St. Martins, N.B. areas taken on Wednesday. At the lagoons, he saw many ducks and gulls but only had time for a small number of photos, including some of the many male American Wigeon Ducks, a soaring Turkey Vulture, and one of the newly installed Nature Moncton Nest Boxes. Earlier in the morning, the heavy fog combined with the bright rising sun to form a dim but noticeable Fogbow. At St. Martins, Brian photographed a Ring-billed Gull resting on the rocky beach and a female Common Eider Duck swimming close to shore. Some low clouds in Hampton opened to give enough space to allow some Sunbeams to poke through and create a "heavenly" scene.

**A heads up on a presentation that Gart Bishop will give to Nature Sussex that will pique botanists to jot it off on their calendar with details below:

Learn a little bit of the human history and the flora of the most botanically explored location in New Brunswick. Gart Bishop will tell the story of how Kent Island (6 km from Grand Manan) came to be a wildlife sanctuary that is owned by an American college, complete with stories of petrels, albatrosses, rare flycatchers, muskrats, hares, and a quick look at some of the flora.

7 pm Monday, October 23, St Marks Anglican Church Hall in Sussex Corner.

**Barbara Smith advises of a free ‘Help the Bats’ seminar being put on next Wednesday by the Canadian Wildlife Federation. It sounds as if there might be some good information there for naturalists. The details appear below:

Note that it would be 7-8 PM Atlantic time.

You are invited to participate in a webinar to explore the mysterious world of bats and bat research.

WHEN: October 25, 2023 at 6-7 pm ET

As Halloween approaches bats are often depicted as terrors of the night. But the real threat is that bat populations are in steep declines in Canada… and humans are mostly to blame. Bats are much more terrorized by us than we are by them.

Join CWF’s Bat Researcher Bailey Bedard in this free webinar to lean about the different Canadian bat species, the amazing abilities they have and the benefits they provide humans and the ecosystem. You will also be able to find out more about CWF’s bat research and how humans, while the primary threat to bats, can also be part of the solution to helping them recover.