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**Yvette Richard shares
photos of birds taken outside the windows of her Cocagne home to include evening
grosbeak, pine grosbeak, and sharp-shinned hawk. In addition, Yvette visited the painted bunting in Bayfield three times and saw it all three times. The last date she saw it was January 9.
She returned to view the
bunting on the last two Fridays and did not see it either time.
Yvette also shares her first
sighting of a female rusty blackbird. She spotted it at the Sackville Waterfowl
Park as it flushed from a bush along the trail to the little wooden bridge by
the highway end of the park.
(Editor’s note: It is of
interest to note that this is the first rusty blackbird photograph submitted
that was not part of the small flock patronizing John Inman’s Harvey bird
feeder yard.)
**Bald eagles
are now establishing nesting territories.
On Tuesday, John Inman
photographed an adult appearing to advise two immature bald eagles that appeared
to be within the adult's nesting territory. The adult very pointedly escorted them out
of the area.
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
