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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.
The action in the
peregrine falcon box on the summit of Assumption Place has now become nonstop,
with two very busy parents tending to the insatiable appetites of four
teenagers. The grocery cart obviously includes blue jays from the evidence
on the floor of the nest!
Https://www.zoodemagnetichillzoo.ca/nest-cam
** In her recent
travels, Shannon Inman photographed a male eastern bluebird, a couple of male
bobolinks, and below the Harvey Dam, a wet common raven that looks like
it's fishing with the gulls.
**Isaac Aker again shares
some photographs of amphibians he has found in the Riverview area in
recent weeks.
This includes the red eft,
the immature stage of the Eastern newt, which is the terrestrial stage. The newt will return to water after 2 to 3 years where it will progress to the mature stage, and it will
be aquatic thereafter.
Isaac also shares photos
of a red-backed salamander and an American toad.
**Georges Brun comments that after
waiting around for 3 days, he finally managed to get a few photos of a harbour
porpoise in the Petitcodiac River by Hall’s Creek. He was with his friend,
Paul Ouellette, who has keen enough eyesight to detect a "shark dorsal fin" (his
words), so they finally got the proof they needed. Is it just by coincidence
that it showed up in almost the same spot as the last 2 years?
(Editor’s note: it must be
in those photographs somewhere!)
Obviously, the gaspereaux
are moving with the tides, and this seemed to attract five great blue herons to
join the harbour porpoise.
**Pat Gibbs sends a
photograph of a male ring-necked pheasant that was the runt of the
clutch. It has now become the cock of the walk in her urban yard, in search of
that perfect mate.
Pat also photographed a fledgling
European starling, which, no doubt at the moment. is flooding the fledgling
highway.
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
