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**On Monday, Louise
Nichols saw the painted bunting that has been coming to a feeder yard in
Bayfield, near Cape Tormentine. The wind was bitter, and snow was
falling. She was frustrated by a camera battery that died very quickly in
the cold, just when she had moved to a spot where she could get much closer
photos of the bird. But she was happy to have seen it and happy with the
photos she did get, which will provide her with memories of such a beautiful
bird on a dull, grey winter day.
**Yolande LeBlanc,
coordinator of the Memramcook Christmas Bird Count on December 18, shares the
tally up of the day. It can be viewed at the link below:
**Jamie Burris was able to photograph the male eastern towhee on Monday that many of us try to locate at a Riverview feeder yard on Christmas Bird Count on Saturday. It will be a special edition for count week.
**While
visiting Hampton for the holidays Brian Stone checked out a couple of areas for
interesting photo possibilities but found only a few dark morph grey
squirrels romping around on Spooner Island and one hybrid mallard duck
swimming in a small open water spot with a few regular mallards. He
photographed at least three different specimens of the dark squirrels as they
enjoyed the forage left for them by people and by nature itself.
(Editor’s
note: the dark morph grey squirrel is relatively uncommon in New Brunswick. It
is therefore a surprise to hear of three in one spot which is possibly the result
of a dominant dark gene in the grey squirrels in that area. The dark gene
phenotype has become very common in Ontario.)
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
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