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Newsletter -- 1983-01-01 -- Page 18
Year Published: 1983
Part Of: Newsletter -- 1983-01-01
Snippet: ‘5 w ~ '.‘~ *" :2 3 3’ PROVINCIAL PARKS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM ‘ z :r' 1' i‘r, v ' . I [During the fall, winter and spring months when schools are in session and youth groups, such as Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, are active, provincial parks…
Newsletter -- 1983-01-01 -- Page 4
Year Published: 1983
Part Of: Newsletter -- 1983-01-01
Snippet: CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNTS ’ The unusually mild and open weather of fall and early winter this year led many of us to expect better than usual results on our annual bird counts. However the strong winds and almost complete lack of snow cover…
Newsletter -- 1983-01-01 -- Page 3
Year Published: 1983
Part Of: Newsletter -- 1983-01-01
Snippet: COMING EVENTS * A * * * ~k * ~k * * * * * * * ~k * * k * * * * 'k * ~k : NOTICE OF CHANGE OF MEETING PLACE : * Beginning on February first, the Natural History Society meetings will * * be held at Beaconsfield, headquarters of the P.E.I.…
Newsletter -- 1983-01-01 -- Page 7
Year Published: 1983
Part Of: Newsletter -- 1983-01-01
Snippet: FEATHERS. FUR AND FAT by Anne Landry, Haskesiu Lake, Saskatchewan As fuel prices soar, we are becoming more aware, and more concerned with energy conservation, no more so than during the winter months. Watching a fox trot across a frozen…
Newsletter -- 1983-01-01 -- Page 2
Year Published: 1983
Part Of: Newsletter -- 1983-01-01
Snippet: NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND P. 0. BOX 2346, CHARLOTTETOWN Meetings are held on the first Tuesday of the month at 8:00 p.m. in Beacons- field, headquarters of the P.E.I. Heritage Foundation, 2 Kent St., Charlottetown. (…
Newsletter -- 1983-01-01 -- Page 5
Year Published: 1983
Part Of: Newsletter -- 1983-01-01
Snippet: 1 Common Loon 99 Rock Dove 15 Canada Goose 1 Mourning Dove 1 Ma11ard 4 Hairy Woodpecker 262 B1ack Duck 1 Gray Jay 276 Common Go1deneye 81 BTue Jay 1 Barrow's Goideneye 37 Common Raven 1 Buff1ehead 561 Common Crow 4 O1dsquaw 8 B1ack—capped…
Newsletter -- 1983-01-01 -- Page 9
Year Published: 1983
Part Of: Newsletter -- 1983-01-01
Snippet: sometimes forming a soiid mass of bodies across the stream. Spawning itseif generaiiy occurs under the cover of darkness and, when possibie, many of the fish drop downstream to deeper waters during dayiight. Spawning is a dangerous period…
Newsletter -- 1983-01-01 -- Page 8
Year Published: 1983
Part Of: Newsletter -- 1983-01-01
Snippet: THE RAINBOW SMEJ by Geoff Hogan, Springvale . Winter is typically the time when our attention is drawn towards clusters of . little shacks that appear to spring up overnight on the ice of many rivers across Prince Edward Island. The people…
Newsletter -- 1983-01-01 -- Page 17
Year Published: 1983
Part Of: Newsletter -- 1983-01-01
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Newsletter -- 1983-01-01 -- Page 14
Year Published: 1983
Part Of: Newsletter -- 1983-01-01
Snippet: NEWS ANDJN'OTES 4- DECEMRER MEETING REPORT. The Dec. 7th meeting finalized plans for upcoming Christmas‘ Bird C0unts. Considerable discussion took place on the format of the proposed poster on Island birds. In an effort to increase the…
Newsletter -- 1983-01-01 -- Page 1
Year Published: 1983
Part Of: Newsletter -- 1983-01-01
Snippet: w PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND ' NATURAL HISTORY SOCEETY NEWSLETTER NEWSLETTER No.69 JAN-FEB. 1983 …
Newsletter -- 1983-01-01 -- Page 12
Year Published: 1983
Part Of: Newsletter -- 1983-01-01
Snippet: FIRST P.E.I. - :3" RECORD FOR LESSER BLACK- BACKED GULL by Geoff Hogan, Springvaie On 2 January 1983 four members of the NHS, Joyce Mac Leod, Vicki Friesen, Tim Birt and Geoff Hogan, observed an aduit Lesser Biack-backed Gui] (Larus fuscus…
Newsletter -- 1983-01-01 -- Page 15
Year Published: 1983
Part Of: Newsletter -- 1983-01-01
Snippet: MORE ON STAR CLOCKS An article entitled 'How to Tell Time by the Stars' based on Helen Sawyer Hoqg's method appeared in the Sept.-Oct. 1982 newsletter. Since then another, and slightly different, method has come to light. This one comes…
Newsletter -- 1983-01-01 -- Page 16
Year Published: 1983
Part Of: Newsletter -- 1983-01-01
Snippet: EONANZA BY THE SEA by Margaret E. Mallett, Charlottetown Nov. 4, 1982. Breezy and partly sunny, it was a rare day for early November - in fact it broke the high temperature record with an official reading of 200 Celsius - a good day for a…
Newsletter -- 1983-01-01
Year Published: 1983
Part Of: Island naturalist
Snippet: This material has been made available for research, education, and private use only. Publication, distribution or commercial use of the material requires permission from the copyright …
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