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The camera on the peregrine
falcon nest box on the summit of Assumption Place is now live. When
checking the link to watch the activity, scroll down to the first large image,
which shows what is happening in real time.
**Saturday was a very
big day for the peregrine falcon family!
Georges Brun was able to
get a photo of the eggs pipping in the early morning. Some photos were caught later
in the day of an adult admiring the two new youngsters, and a second photo that
shows one being fed already.
Expect nonstop action for
the next 6 weeks, providing all goes as hoped.
https://www.zoodemagnetichillzoo.ca/nest-cam
**Louise Nichols reports that
things went extremely well for the Nature Moncton Warbler outing, with many
cooperative warblers giving folks all they could want.
Louise sends a photo of an American redstart male displaying for a female, one photo of the Wilson's
warbler they saw, one of the highlights of the day. And one
of a least sandpiper, one of seven (!), that was in the
lagoon.
**The warbler walk was
very successful, and our thanks go out to Gordon Rattray for being such a wonderful
guide. Apart from a great array of species (over 30!), there was a particular
treat when a pair of American redstarts came in, and the male was
displaying his courtship behaviour to an interested female. After the group
departed, Deanna Fenwick went to the walking trails and added a few to the list
for the day at the ponds - a blue-winged teal, and a Canada goose
with young - the first one she had seen this spring. There were many bobolinks,
a common yellowthroat, a few chipping sparrows, and many savannah sparrows
by the water, as well as many yellow-rumped warblers.
**Yvette Richard had
another lucky sighting on Saturday.
She photographed an adult
little blue heron on the Sawdust Rd at the Batemans Mills Rd end in the
little marsh.
Yvette watched it take a
frog as prey.
**Georges Brun spotted and photographed a spotted sandpiper that had arrived to the mouth of Hall's Creek in Moncton on Saturday.
**Jane LeBlanc did not see
any new birds (or the tanager) at her neighbour's, but did find a red
admiral butterfly.
At home, she found a blue-headed
vireo and got a documentary photo.
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
