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August 25, 2024
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To top that off, an immature Little Blue
Heron flew by to catch the camera eye!
That makes for a surprising number of
unexpected heron species in one spot.
**Shannon Inman was able to capture a photo of a Great Egret and a Great Blue Heron appearing to have a pleasant discussion about their lifestyles as the egret paid a visit to the waterside area on Saturday.
Shannon also photographed a trio of White-tailed
Deer keeping an eye on her as she photographed the herons.
**Mac Wilmot’s grandson Andy Stultz is an
officer aboard an icebreaker that monitors the area of Arctic Canada.
Andy shares some photographs of a Polar
Bear seemingly quite unconcerned about a ship in its territory as it
wonders about on its daily mission.
**Phil Riebel shares some excellent photos he
captured over this past summer in various areas including some flight photos
of a Bank Swallow, a Crested Caracara that visited PEI, an Eastern Kingbird,
and a Red Fox making that classic leap that is often successful in a
delicious vole lunch.
Phil’s Miramichi yard flowering plants were
very frequently visited by the Hummingbird Clearwing moth, so it was a surprise
when he noticed one that looked a little different that turned out to be the much
less commonly encountered Snowberry Clearwing moth.
**Maureen Girvan got a photograph of the
colourful Two-striped Grasshopper nicely showing the pale stripes that
run from the back of the eyes to the hind wing as well as the poppy red that
often shows on the tibia portion of the leg.
**John Inman was feeding the birds when he noticed
a Spotted Tussock Moth caterpillar drop about a foot from a clematis
plant onto a spider thread and quickly a spider zipped out. John grabbed his camera
and got a few photos as the spider quickly encased it and left. After about 5
min, the caterpillar was able to make an escape.
**Jane LeBlanc had given up trying to find Monarch
butterfly caterpillars on her huge Common Milkweed patch, but on Friday,
she noticed three good-sized caterpillars on her much smaller Swamp Milkweed patch.
Then Saturday morning, while weeding the garden, she found her first Monarch
butterfly chrysalis of the year, on one of her high bush blueberry shrubs.
She looked around to the nearest milkweed plant and could only assume the
caterpillar had had a long, arduous journey to get to where it was.
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
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