November 16,
2023
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**Louise
Nichols stopped by the Sackville Retention Pond briefly Wednesday to note a
group of Mallard Ducks who decided they wanted to be 'diving ducks'. They dove
repeatedly, seemingly foraging under the water because they frequently appeared
to be nibbling on food when they came to the surface. They kept up this
behaviour for quite some time and were still at it when Louise left.
Take a look at the activity Louise saw at the video link below:
**Three Snow Buntings greeted Aldo
Dorio on his regular morning visit to Hay Island on Thursday morning.
**Norbert
Dupuis comments he is lucky to live in Memramcook East and sends photos from
October 31st, after the first snowfall from his home across the Memramcook
Valley. Idyllic and magical with accents from fall Tamarack trees!
Norbert
shares the story behind the Northern Cardinals. November 7th, 2022, was a
very special day for him. As he looked outside, there it was, a beautiful
male Northern Cardinal perching in his yard flowering crab tree!
It stayed there a good part of the afternoon but never came back. Norbert
comments he was lucky that his friends Yolande and Eudore LeBlanc graciously
accepted his dozens of visits, sitting for hours trying to take a photo of a female
cardinal. He enjoyed taking many photos of the juvenile but
not the mature. November 9th, 2023, is the day he will never forget.
Norbert looked outside, and there it was, accompanied by the male.
Two females have been in his yard for 6 consecutive days, and it is such
a pleasure to see their expressions and movements.
Cedar waxwings and an American Robin have been foraging on his Mountain Ash crop
since early November.
Norbert
also shares a photo of an immature Cooper’s Hawk he photographed last year at
Yolande and Eudore’s yard in Memramcook.
(Editor’s
note: this is a raptor species doing well to the south of us and
continually expanding its range into New Brunswick.)
**On Wednesday, Brian Stone got ambitious and toured
the coastline from Cap Lumiere to Petit Cap and checked all the wharves and
viewing spots along the way. He only missed the Cap Brule lagoons as he needed a scope. There were no large numbers of seabirds at any spot, but a few did
show up for the camera at several stops.
At Cap Lumiere,
Brian photographed male and female Long-tailed Ducks and female Common
Eider Ducks. At the St. Edouard wharf, he got close-ups of a Red-throated
Loon that was feeding in the enclosed area and a Ring-billed Gull
that was perching on a post.
At Pointe-du-Chene wharf, Brian saw a small group of
scruffy-looking female Red-breasted Merganser Ducks and a really large group of Gulls
resting on the rock wall.
At Rue Niles
wharf, the large group of Sanderlings was still present, but only one Bonaparte's
Gull remained and was standing on the rocks beside the wharf.
At the Petit Cap wharf, Brian noted 4 Horned Grebes
quite far out and got a long-distance photo of one.
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
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