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NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND NEWSLETTER

Newsletter No. 14 February 1976

NEXT MEETING

Date: Tuesday, March 2, 1976

Time: 8::00:.p.im.

Place: Provincial Health Building, 3rd floor, Room 47 and 48.
Enter through garage on west side of Provincial Administra-
tive Building.

Program: Nelson Hurry, Conservation Officer, Fish and Wildlife

Division, will speak on the subject "Birds of Prey as found
in Prince Edward Island".

ANNOUNCEMENTS

MEMBERSHIP DUES have been coming in since last meeting and the paid-
up membership is now up to 68. When do we hit the hundred mark? If
mailing please send $2.00 per member making cheques payable to the
Natural History Society of P.E.I., c/o Margaret Mallett, 53 Fitzroy
St., Charlottetown, P.E.I. Cl1A 1R4.

"WINDS OF SEA AND WOOD" is available for $1.35 at the Bookmark, the

Card Shop, the Heritage Foundation, the Gallery Sales Desk at Confedera-
tion Centre, and at the regular meetings. It may be ordered PREPAID

for $1.50, which includes postage, from the address above.

NEWSLETTER ARTICLES AND ANECDOTES from our readers would be most wel-
come. Items about birds or other wildlife make interesting reading.
Won't you put on the thinking cap, put pen to paper and see what
develops? Newsletter editor is Rosemary Curley, 183 North River Road.
If more convenient items may be left at 53 Fitzroy St.

NEWS

We are pleased to receive the Halifax Field Naturalists Newsletter
which is being published bi-monthly. The club was organized recently
and Winifred Cairns is the secretary-treasurer. Winifred wrote an
article on the Piping Plover for the latest HFN newsletter. This

is being used in this edition of our newsletter. Winifred is also a
member of our natural history society.

The oft postponed field trip to East Suffolk came off Saturday,

Feb. 2lst. It was an absolutely perfect winter day---brilliant sun-
shine, light wind, enough snow for snowshoes but all right for boots
only. The sun pouring down into a sheltered clearing made it
pleasantly warm for our noontime lunch. We found that a pair of mitts
On a snowshoe made a dry comfortable seat. There were remarks such as:
"This is better than a picnic in the summer", and "Who would want

to go to Florida"? Not many species of wildlife were seen---some
black-capped chickadees, a couple of ravens, and in an open part

of the Winter River several black ducks. Not a snowshoe hare did we
see, but the concentration of fresh tracks in various places indicated
joyful frolicking in the light of the waning moon.