NATURE MONCTON NATURE NEWS
September 13, 2025
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**Late Friday afternoon, Louise Nichols received a text from Kathy Popma to let her know that a whimbrel was in the field behind the Sackville town garage, feeding with some yellowlegs. Gilles Belliveau had located the bird. Louise went out afterward, as the sun was setting, and the birds were still there. She shares a couple of distant documentary photos of the whimbrel.
**Aldo
Dorio got a photograph of a solitary sandpiper in the Covedell Road area
of Tabusintac on Friday.
It’s nice
to see photos of the species coming in at this time of year.
** Brian
Stone visited the trails on Walker Rd. outside Sackville that have been made
famous by Louise Nichols. He was on a mission to find the elusive boreal
chickadee that seems to prefer Louise's company over anyone else, even though
it has been avoiding her lately as well. Of course, Brian failed in his
mission, but he sent the consolation prizes that he did find success with.
Besides the black-capped chickadees that he was hoping had their elusive cousin
along with, Brian photographed northern parulas, black and white
warblers, blue-headed vireos, blackpoll warblers, dark-eyed
juncos, black-throated green warblers, a red-eyed vireo, yellow-rumped
warblers, and a high-flying turkey
vulture.
Brian
noticed that there were just as many wasps nectaring, or foraging, on
the fall flowers as there were bees. He also saw several crane flies.
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
