NATURE
MONCTON NATURE NEWS
May 30, 2025
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To
view the live feed of the Peregrine Falcon nest cam on the summit of Assumption
Place in Moncton, go to:
**Norbert Dupuis shares more special photographic moments from his Memramcook East yard when a northern mockingbird dropped by.
Norbert’s pair of eastern bluebirds
continues to be busy with family life at their newly minted nest box. Norbert
was able to get a photo of the pair together at the nest box, as well as the
male in flight.
**Jim Johnson erected a clay man-made
imitation of a cliff swallow nest in an area under the eave of his Scotch
Settlement home where a few cliff swallows had been nesting. It appears they
have occupied the artificial nest this year.
(Editor’s note: Cliff swallow numbers have declined dramatically, and Roger LeBlanc commissioned a local potter to make
some of the imitation nests after a pattern that had been previously available.
Some of them were occupied, with Jim’s being one of them.)
**James Hirtle captured an excellent open-wing
photo of the juvenal duskywing butterfly on the Centennial Trail in
Bridgewater, NS.
The dreamy dusky wing butterfly is common in
New Brunswick; however, the juvenal duskywing butterfly is very rare in New
Brunswick, with possibly only one record from Oak Bay. The juvenal duskywing
butterfly is also uncommon in Nova Scotia, but not considered rare, with a good
number of confirmed observations. There has to be a chance some may be in New
Brunswick and yet unrecorded, so this message is intended to make naturalists who
take note of the dreamy duskywing butterfly to always take a second look for
the vivid white spots to easily differentiate the two kin. Photographs of both
are shown in today’s edition.
**Nelson Poirier came across a black bear on
Friday afternoon as it appeared to be chowing down on grass of some type.
Nelson watched her for a while, taking a few
photographs, but the big surprise came when three smaller bears suddenly appeared
from the nearby woods to join the bigger bear. It is assumed that the large
bear was a sow and the three smaller ones would be two-year-olds that denned with
the mother for the winter and will be abruptly advised to go out on their own,
usually by early July. The mother bear has a brown tinged pelage which is
normal for approximately the first month out of the den.
Nelson did get photos of the four bears together,
but they were lost in processing. Hopefully, retrieval is possible. It was very
rewarding to watch the family
interaction.
Nelson Poirier.
Nature Moncton
