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**Both Bob Blake and Ron
Stiles each have reported four northern flickers enjoying ants on their home
lawns. It almost seems traditional that northern flickers seek out ants on
well-groomed lawns this time of year.
**Ron Steeves reports there
was an injured northern gannet in the lumber yard of the Home Hardware store in
Salisbury Wednesday morning. He wonders what weather conditions brought that
species so far inland. It was an adult bird. Ron comments that he has a good
yard list over the years but not a northern gannet. This one was close!
(Editor’s note: this would
be one of the pelagic species that, if grounded for whatever reason, might have
difficulty taking flight. Capturing this bird with a net or blanket and tossing
it off a bridge into the river may well be enough to get it reoriented into the
air, depending on the injury.)
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
