NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
P.O. BOX 2346, CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. Cl1A 8C1

MEETINGS are held on the first Tuesday of the month (except June, July, August,
and September) at 7:30 p.m. at the Farm Centre, 420 University Avenue,
Charlottetown. Members and non-members are welcome. Please bring your coffee
cup so that we will contribute as little as possible to the waste stream.

MEMBERSHIP is open to anyone interested in the natural history of Prince Edward
Island. Membership is available at any meeting or by contacting Dan McAskill,
Charlottetown RR # 5, Donagh, P.E.I. C1A 7J8 (phone 569-4351). Annual
membership rates are: single - $4; family - $5. Renewals are due in January.
Membership expiry dates are in the top right hand corner of the mailing label.

The Society is directed by a volunteer executive elected from its members.

1991 Executive: President... c.csseovsvee Barbara Currie, Charlottetown 894-9297
Vice-President......... Mary Beth Harris, Battery Point 569-2665

Past President..Patrick Wootton, Sharram Point 892-5761 962-3641

SCCROTM Vissi nisicicle's pew cure de tc eae eae Carolyn Meincke 368-1704

TOMB OPC 6 olin evict sped ec cbec sett Dan McAskill, Donagh 569-4351

DIV ECHOLS Is cladie Societe e ed oe, Vic Toews, Charlottetown 566-4998

Hike Ridie Giendiintere oo, 0'> o'We Donald Wilkinson, Sherwood 566-1279

NEWSLETTERS are published bi-monthly on recycled paper. Articles, notes,
reports, drawings, etc. are welcomed from members and non-members. If you have
seen anything unusual, please share it with us. It is important to have your
observations recorded so that others may learn from them. "Today's notations
become tomorrow's history". All contributions should be sent to:

Dan McAskill, The Newsletter Editor

Natural History Society of Prince Edward Island

Charlottetown RR #5, Donagh, P.E.I. C1A 7J8
The next newsletter deadline is June 10th, 1991.

The Natural History Society gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance
from the Department of Tourism and Parks which enables the newsletters to be
distributed to schools and libraries and to members.

The Natural History Society is an affiliate of the Canadian Nature Federation
and has representation on the board of the Island Nature Trust. The Society is
a registered, non-profit organization. Tax receipts are issued for donations to
the Society and these funds are used to further the work of the Society.
Editors of other newsletters are welcome to reprint articles from the Island
Naturalist (except when copyrighted). Acknowledgment would be appreciated.

THIS MONTHS COVER

The Common Grackles on this months cover are one of our early spring seed
eating migrants. It winters in the middle to southern states. This year they
arrived en masse approximately March 22nd which suggests a normal migration
year. They construct a nest of coarse grass and other vegetable matter, often
cemented with mud and lined with fine grass. They often nest in small colonies
in spruce hedges.

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