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**The October monthly meeting of Nature Moncton will take place tomorrow, Tuesday night, when Brian Donovan will take us on a visit to some mammals we don’t often see, including lynx, fisher, marten, and river otter, among others. All details at the end of this message and upfront tomorrow morning.
**Several photos from
yesterday’s edition ended up in the wrong folder and were not on the sent-out
edition until corrected at noon. If you happened to check out Nature News yesterday before noon, scroll back to yesterday’s edition for the added photos.
**Gordon Rattray sends a
collection of birds that visited his feeders over the last week. A female
red-bellied woodpecker was first seen on Nov. 15 in just a flash, but it
returned Sunday and allowed a photograph. The evening grosbeaks
visited on Nov. 13 but have not returned. The purple finch was a one-day
visitor on Nov 10. The dark-eyed juncos, downy woodpeckers, white-breasted
nuthatch, and red-breasted nuthatch are all daily visitors.
**Jane LeBlanc caught a
brief glimpse of a sharp-shinned hawk in her yard on Sunday morning in
the rain and got a photo. She also got a documentary photo of the female
northern cardinal.
**The Rentons in Stilesville have access to Nature News
but are not able to send photos of their always-active feeder yard. Kevin
Renton advises that all the regulars are there in numbers, but they were pleased to
have 20+ evening grosbeaks arrive on Sunday morning. Four flocks in different
areas in 3 days suggest a good evening grosbeak winter ahead at birdfeeders.
**NATURE
MONCTON MEETING PRESENTATION
Date: November 18, 2025, at 7:00 PM
Place: Mapleton Rotary Lodge
Presenter: Brian Donovan
Trail
Camera Wildlife
The
opportunity to observe wild animals going about their daily business, just as
they would without human presence, is a beautiful privilege that well-placed
trail cameras can offer.
Brian
Donovan has perfected the technique with 20 trail cameras set, which he checks
every 3 weeks, both winter and summer, at a remote section bordering the Renous
Highway in the most densely forested area of New Brunswick.
Expect to
see animals such as lynx, moose, bears, fishers, martens, and more in action
day and night.
Brian’s 5
years spent pursuing a forestry degree at UNB undoubtedly spurred these routine
visits to the deep woods. He has been working intensively on this project as a
hobby for 6 years. He has learned a
great deal of unique information about the biology of his patrons, and he has
developed a skillful delivery to share it.
Expect 30
minutes of condensed information and 15 minutes of the most amazing video to be
recorded in New Brunswick.
This presentation
will take place at the Mapleton Rotary Lodge (weather permitting) and will be available
virtually as well at the link below:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81345713415?pwd=cNjfKVR5WMasWHqaSykiyoVyaygVhF.1
All are
welcome, Nature Moncton member or not.
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
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