NATURE MONCTON NATURE NEWS
September 8, 2025
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NATURE MONCTON FIELD TRIP
Saturday, September 13, 2025
Location: Fort Folly First Nation, Medicine Trail
Start time: 9:00 am, approximately 2
hours
Come join us for a guided walk along the Medicine Hiking Trail at the site of Amlamgog (Fort Folly) First Nation. As we walk, our guide Elder Nicole Dubé will introduce us to Mi’kmaw perspectives of medicine, food, health, and healing.
This is a 2.5 km well-groomed trail, family-friendly, and an easy walk through the woods. It features English, French, and Mi’kmaw interpretative panels that showcase medicinal plants and their traditional uses.
Directions:
If using Highway #2 from Moncton,
take exit #482. Turn right onto Renaissance Road, which links to Royal
Rd/NB-106 E (signs for NB-925/Dorchester). From the Memramcook Home Hardware, drive approximately 15 km (about 15 minutes).
Bernard Trail is off of Route 106,
which connects Dieppe – Memramcook – Dorchester – Sackville. Once on Bernard Trail, the buildings are not
numbered, so continue past the Health Centre and look for the teepee on the
left, and park there.
This is in the woods, so bug spray
and protective clothing are recommended. Don’t forget to wear your name tag
too!
All are welcome, whether you're a Nature Moncton member or not.
**Jane LeBlanc had a male monarch butterfly emerge from a chrysalis in her cage on Monday, and one more chrysalis formed. She has two chrysalides left.
She also
found cedar waxwings, both mature and juvenile, in St. Martins.
(Editor’s
note: it’s very pleasant to be welcoming the juvenile cedar waxwings that are
expected at this point due to their habit of late nesting. The abundant
mountain ash and other berries are appropriately available.)
**Peter
Gadd visited Kouchibouguac National Park on Monday. A double-crested
cormorant caught his eye in the Kelly’s Beach area. The cormorant was
not successful on this attempt to swallow its prey (a huge flounder). Peter saw
exactly the same thing in the same area in September of 2018 (photos from 2018
as well as 2025). The cormorant on that occasion was a better fisherman, it
seems. It threw the fish up in the air to reposition it in its mouth!
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
