Wood Duck Mallard

Northern Shoveler Ring-necked Duck Surf Scoter Osprey Sharp-shinned Hawk

Ruffed Grouse

Black-bellied Plover

Greater Yellowlegs

Upland Sandpiper

Common Snipe

Bonaparte’s Gull

Great Black-backed Gull Black Guillemot Ruby-throated Hummingbird Northern Flicker Eastern Kingbird

Blue Jay

Tree Swallow

Boreal Chickadee Winter Wren Swainson's Thrush

Gray Catbird

Northern Parula Yellow-ramped Warbler Palm Warbler

American Redstart Common Yellowthroat Chipping Sparrow Lincoln’s Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Bobolink Common Grackle I Pine Siskin House Sparrow

Pine Siskin

Green-winged Teal Northern Pintail Gadwall

Common Eider White-winged Scoter Bald Eagle

American Kestrel Virginia Rail

Piping Plover

Willet

Short-billed Dowitcher American Woodcock Herring Gull

Caspian Tern

Rock Dove

Belted Kingfisher Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Blue-headed (Solitary) Vireo American Crow

Bank Swallow Black-capped Chickadee Golden-crowned Kinglet Hermit Thrush European Starling Yellow Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Ovenbird

Wilson's Warbler Savannah Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Red-winged Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird American Goldfinch

NEIL BENNETT AUTUMN BIRDING CLASSIC

American Black Duck Blue-winged Teal American Wigeon Black Scoter Red—breasted Merganser Northern Harrier Merlin

Sora

Killdeer

Spotted Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Ring-billed Gull Glaucous Gull Common Tern Mourning Dove

Downy Woodpecker Least Flycatcher

Gray Jay

Common Raven

Barn Swallow Red-breasted Nuthatch Ruby-crowned Kinglet American Robin Nashville Warbler Magnolia Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Black-and-white Warbler Northern Waterthrush Canada Warbler

Song Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Rose-breasted Grosbeak Rusty Blackbird

Purple Finch

Evening Grosbeak

For the eight year, the Natural History Society will be working in conjunction with the Island Nature Trust to raise money for the acquisition and protection of natural areas throughout the province. This year the team will consist of Dan McAskill, Eric Marcum, Ray Cooke, Bill Bowerbank, and Michelle Johnston. On September 29“, they will take to the fields, wood, shore, and wetlands to count birds, collect sightings for the newsletter, and to raise money for the Island Nature Trust's Bird Island acquisition project. You can help by:

* pledging a set amount or pledging by the species and seeing what the team can do; * contacting Barb McDonald at 566-9150 and obtaining a pledge sheet to collect