NATURE MONCTON NATURE NEWS
January 2, 2025
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**John Inman has had a new Sharp-shinned Hawk
arrive to his Harvey birdfeeder yard. John’s photos show some nice features
to easily distinguish it from the similar Cooper’s Hawk.
Note the pencil-thin legs, tailfeathers equal
in length, horizontally (adult) barred chest extending to the undertail coverts,
among other features. The adult usually has a red eye, which has not happened
in this individual as yet, so it is assumed to be a young adult bird.
**A reminder of an event coming up this
Saturday:
An indoor workshop presentation that may
interest many naturalists is taking place this coming Saturday, January 4, at
232 Botsford St. in Moncton starting at 1:00 PM.
Learn about how to make a difference this year
by starting native plants in your own yard for the birds and bees.
The presentation entitled New Year, New
Roots will demonstrate to participants the opportunity to get seeds for
winter sowing of native plants, a season that stretches out until February for
some species, something most of us may not be aware of.
It will consist of 3 workshops:
1:30 PM- English-language winter sowing
presentation (How to winter sow, some containers to use, some native plant
features)
2:00 PM - Nature journaling workshop on seeds
and winter plants!
3:00 PM - French-language winter sowing
presentation (How to winter sow, some containers to use, some native plant
features)
For those who want to sign up and participate,
register at the link below under ‘Reserve a Spot’ now as early birds will get
free seeds:
The presenter will be Sam LeGresley from
NatureNB and Nature Moncton member. Sam has developed a lot of expertise with
native planting and how to go about doing so “in January”.
**Bob Blake in Second North River maintains
daily weather statistics from his home, including morning low temperatures,
daily high temperatures, and monthly precipitation.
A table is shown below as Bob submits it,
comparing his statistics for December 2023 with December 2024.
From this small sample, it shows December 2024
to be slightly warmer than December 2023 with the precipitation reversal from
predominantly rain in 2023 to predominantly snow in 2024.
|
2023 |
2024 |
||
|
morning
temperatures |
daily
highs and rainfall |
morning
temperatures |
daily
highs and rainfall |
|
+11-1 day +9-1 +8-1 +5-1 +3-2 +2-1 +1-6 0-2 -1-3 -2-3 -3-1 -4-1 -7-1 -9-1 -10-4 -11-1 |
+15-1 +14-2 +8-1 +7-1 +6-4 103 mm. rain 15 cm. snow |
+16-1 +8-1 +2-4 +1-1 -1-1 -2-4 -3-1 -4-1 -6-2 -7-1 -8-3 -9-2 -10-2 -11-2 -12-2 -13-1 -14-1 -15-1 |
+16-1 +14-1 +11-1 +10-1 +8-1 30 mm. rain 61 cm. snow |
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
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