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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.
https://www.zoodemagnetichillzoo.ca/nest-cam
**Brian Stone went
downtown on Monday to check on the peregrine falcon youngsters and to
try to get a few photos of them exploring their new world outside the
box. When he got there, one was out on the perch and was vigorously testing its
wings while the other two watched from inside the box. The one on the perch soon hopped over onto
the roof and disappeared from sight. One of the adults was perched on the tower
above the nest box and was keeping a close eye on the bold young falcon that
was exploring the roof. At one point, there was only one falcon in the nest
box, but it was soon joined once again by its sibling to make two.
**Louise Nichols sends
more photos from her trip to Ontario. These were taken on trails in the
Hamilton area. One trail had a number of indigo buntings and a
couple of scarlet tanagers (Louise could manage only a documentary photo
of the tanager which was high in the canopy). On another trail, by the
Royal Botanical Gardens, Louise photographed a trumpeter swan, a warbling
vireo, a striking molting male wood duck, and a northern cardinal that posed
about a foot away from her on the boardwalk. She also took a photo of an
odd viceroy butterfly that had only a faint (or dotted) black line across its
hindwings rather than the solid black line we usually see.
Louise also includes one photo of a northern house wren that was singing in the morning outside the place they stayed in Goderich.
**Several areas of New
Brunswick are getting accustomed to white-tailed deer becoming
comfortably urbanized, acting a bit like urban goats.
Nelson Poirier was
surprised to find an adult doe white-tailed deer wander into a neighbour’s yard in the middle of the day to enjoy some recently tended and groomed yard foliage (in the midst
of urban Riverview). It appeared again the next morning, this time just outside
Nelson’s apartment deck, to enjoy the foliage adjacent to the
not-yet-landscaped area 10 m from the window.
It would appear Riverview
is joining the municipalities that host street-smart white-tailed deer that have adapted to the safety and food supply that urban life can provide them.
**There is an amazing bog
in the Tantramar Marsh known as the Sunken Bog that is seldom seen or
visited due to the rather challenging growth of snags and underbrush that surrounds
it.
Nelson Poirier was one of
the lucky group to join an evening field trip sponsored by the Chignecto Naturalist
Club to that blog led by botanical guru Sean Blaney. Sean was able to lead the
group of adventurers very capably with compass and GPS abilities to access the bog by the easiest (?) route possible.
For 3 hours, Sean was able to
demonstrate the amazing and often specific flora that can be found in a bog habitat, which will be added to the memory bank of those fortunate
participants.
A few photos are attached
that are just a small sample of the diversity of unique flora that participants got
better acquainted with, some for the first time.
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
