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**NATURE
MONCTON DECEMBER MEETING
DECEMBER 16, 2025, AT 7:00 PM
ROTARY PAVILION, MAPLETON PARK
MEMBERS’ NIGHT & NATURE MONCTON AGM
A heads-up on activities coming up this week for
Nature Moncton and Christmas Bird counts with
the Moncton Christmas Bird Count next Saturday, December 20. Christmas Bird Counts
in various areas will run from December 14 to January 5.
The Nature Moncton meeting tonight, Tuesday night,
will be a special one with lots of diversity as several members will be
presenting short vignettes of special memories of 2025 that promise to give
special memories to the audience as well.
The meeting will start with the short required
ho-hum Annual General Meeting and immediately on to the series of much more
interesting presentations before and after a special break with rumoured
Christmas goodies.
**The resident Carolina wren pair in Mac and
Brenda Wilmot’s Coverdale yard has new digs. A covered-over shelter keeps snow off the mealworms
surrounded by appropriate Christmas decor. The site has been coined Wrenton
Abbey!
**Ted Sears spotted a coyote trotting along
above the sea caves at St. Martins Beach recently to capture a beautiful photo.
(Editor’s note: note where the paws land as this
animal trots with the hind paw landing in the print of the fore paw to create
the typical canine alternate pattern in the trail it will be leaving in the
shallow snow.)
**Late in the day on Saturday, Sue Richards saw two white-tailed deer that were busy eating the apples she had cut in quarters and thrown to them, when three more deer came to check out what was edible besides the seeds that were strewn
for the birds. The latecomers were quite frisky, making each other
run around instead of eating. Susan assumes that behaviour will probably
change as food becomes scarcer through the winter months.
They visit
each day at some point.
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
