Nature Moncton Nature News: Jan 16 2018

NATURE MONCTON INFORMATION LINE, January 16, 2018 ( Tuesday )

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Edited by: Nelson Poirier nelson@nb.sympatico.ca

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Info Line # 506-384-6397 (384-NEWS)

** Tonight, Tuesday night, January 16, is Nature Moncton's member's night to be held at 7:00 pm at the Mapleton Park Rotary Lodge across from Cabela's. Vice President Gordon Rattray will be chairing the meeting and has presentations lined up on trail camera use, Nature N.B. activities, ticks in N.B., marsh monitoring for shorebirds, a recent Arizona trip and any late presentations yet to come. If you have an item to share just bring it along, or bring photos on a flash drive. Kat Atkinson will have the projector and a laptop set up, ready to go, and will operate it for your presentation.

** Ray Gauvin has a regular NORTHERN FLICKER [Pic flamboyant] patron to his Shediac feeder yard. Ray took a short video of it as it perched on a branch on Monday. Take a look at the video, at the attached link, and note the very long tongue that woodpeckers use to go into holes to forage for insects.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/w3eikqkjtahaunb/MVI_2576.MOV?dl=0

** Gordon Rattray took a few photos of his Weldon feeder yard birds on Monday. His AMERICAN GOLDFINCH [Chardonneret jaune] patrons have jumped to forty or fifty from the twenty of recent days. He also got his one lone, hard to photograph, AMERICAN TREE SPARROW [Bruant hudsonien]. He didn't see his BROWN CREEPER [Grimpereau brun] on Monday, but it drops by for a snack most days.

** I usually have about a dozen AMERICAN TREE SPARROWS [Bruant hudsonien] as feeder patrons. When they first arrive white millet is always their first choice and then they find the sunflower chips in the feeders and just recently several are very much enjoying straight peanut butter. The lone SONG SPARROW [Bruant chanteur] is now seeing them at the peanut butter and is following suit. The heated waterer is in constant use.

nelson@nb.sympatico.ca

Nelson Poirier,

Nature Moncton