NATURE MONCTON NATURE NEWS
August 30, 2025
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Check it
out at the video links below:
(Editor’s
note: note the similarity at first glance with the hummingbird clearwing moth.
Their flight is very similar, but the bedstraw hawk moth is much larger. They
are very beautiful when they stay still long enough for a good observation.)
**Larry
Sherrard got a good video of one of the many water bombers in the
Miramichi area as one flew over Nelson Poirier’s camp, very loud and
surprisingly large. Smaller spotter planes are going over as well, but no
opportunity for a photo. The video link below clearly shows the aircraft.
**Shannon
Inman shares several photos of observations on Thursday:
-a meadowhawk
dragonfly (a female cherry-faced or white- faced meadowhawk suspected) -- Id by Gilles Belliveau
-a red-eyed
vireo
- some
clusters of wild raisin berries that are just taking on their dark blue ripe colour
•a green
burgundy stink bug (which, like all stink bugs, releases a foul-smelling
liquid when threatened)
•a hop
vine showing its clusters of seed packets
**Jane
LeBlanc found a viceroy butterfly at the harbour area in St. Martins on
Friday. At home, she still has one monarch butterfly chrysalis and two good-sized
caterpillars in her rearing cage.
**Lisa
Morris was walking the Halifax boardwalk with fishers catching mackerel off
Purdy Wharf.
A molting
European starling and herring gulls were among the troop standing
by for any potential tidbits.
**Aldo
Dorio submits a photo of a killdeer showing the second band on the
breast to be incomplete to suggest the possibility that the bird is undergoing a molt.
**The 2025
Summer newsletter for the summer of 2025 from the Petitcodiac Watershed
Alliance is available by clicking on the link below. In this newsletter,
the group is excited to update folks with all their recent progress, successes,
and opportunities to get involved with the Petitcodiac Watershed Alliance.
This
seasonal newsletter includes opportunities for education, volunteering, water
data, and much more. Click on the link below to get updated:
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
