observations at Charlottetown Airport, August 26 to December 21, 1992

Species Au26 Se09 Se18 Se24 OcOS 0c16 Oc26 No02 Nol6 N030 De21

Double-crested Corm. 2* 8*

Canada Geese 27* Green-winged Teal . 3 Blue—winged Teal 1 Northern Harrier l

Sharp-shinned Hawk 1*

Northern Goshawk 1

American Kestrel 8 1 Gray Partridge 7

Lesser Golden Plover 38 25 6 46 48 2 Killdeer 4 2

Upland Sandpiper 6 4

White-rumped Sandpiper 12 Buff—breasted Sandpiper ‘1 l

Herring Gull 10 1 1 1 2 Ring-billed Gull 5 5 16 8 7O 3 60 Rock Dove 2 1

Common Flicker 1

Eastern Kingbird 3

Horned Lark 6 18 16 22 , 2

Barn Swallow 1 1 Blue Jay . 1 2 3 American Crow 2 40 Common Raven 37 2 3 6 American Robin 16

Water Pipit 2

European Starling 2O Bobolink American Goldfinch 2

Savannah Sparrow 10 2

Snow Bunting 60

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MAYFLOWERS CAN BE DESTROYED by Margaret E. Mallett

Mayflower or Trailing Arbutus time is almost here again. If you happen to come upon a patch of this fragrant floral emblem of Nova Scotia and Massachusetts, please curb your enthusiasm so that there may still be Mayflowers to be enjoyed by other persons many years from now.

I once selected a small plot, about one square foot in size - excellent Mayflower country. I called it my experimental plot and staked it out with four slender stakes. Using the pocketknife, I carefully cut off about half of the blooms, allowing them short stems of about two inches.

I was keeping a written record of results, but certainly by the second spring afterward there were no Mayflowers in the little plot.

In another instance, during a group walk, we came upon a large patch of Mayflowers with an abundance of blooms to which several persons helped themselves liberally pulling them out instead of cutting.

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