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February 3, 2024
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**For the last number of days, Peter and Deana Gadd have been visited by a
female Hairy Woodpecker with an extraordinarily long beak. It has been reaching
into a suet cage very regularly with an obvious advantage. For comparison,
attached is a photo of another female Hairy Woodpecker that has to make do with
a regular beak!
The snow
Friday in Miramichi was very welcome. The male Northern Cardinal, often referred to as a ‘Red Cardinal’ around the Gadd's neighbourhood, has
been a daily patron with its partner not far away for more than a year, and
they produced at least one youngster last spring.
In one photo,
the Mourning Doves are doing what they do best!
Friday morning,
not for the first time in recent days, an American Robin was feasting on a neighbour's
date-expired clinging apples.
**Jane
LeBlanc's flock of Evening Grosbeaks swelled to at least a dozen Friday,
with males appearing as well as females. She got a distant shot in not ideal
photography conditions.
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
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