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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.
All is outwardly quiet in
the nest box this morning, but that could be a very different scenario in a few
weeks!
Does anybody want to make
a guess on what day the first chick pips out of an egg??
https://www.zoodemagnetichillzoo.ca/nest-cam
**Nature Moncton has
erected many bird nesting boxes at Wilson Marsh. Marbeth Wilson got some
photographs of tree swallows appearing to very much appreciate their new
digs.
**Jane LeBlanc had a chipping
sparrow in her St. Martins yard in the rain and wet snow. The poor
hummingbird must not have been impressed with this weather.
**Georges Brun spotted two white-throated
sparrows next to his Moncton driveway on Saturday.
Northern shovelers, green-winged teals,
and lesser scaup were in a small pond on the west side of the
Brenda Robertson bridge the same day.
(Editor's note: Georges
is leaving a good suggestion here to make stops at the off-ramps on the western
side of the bridge, as there is often waterfowl and gulls resting there.)
**David Lilly photographed a double-crested cormorant in its brighter spring breeding plumage. This species is moving into New Brunswick now in the thousands along our coastline and especially in freshwater rivers where smelts are moving up in clouds to lay eggs. The smelt is very sought after, as well as the soon-to-arrive gaspereau, by the newly arriving double-crested cormorants.
David also photographed a male
northern cardinal, one with the background of a red building and the other
without that backdrop.
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
