BlRD REPORT

Northern Gannet - 2 feeding off Savage Harbour during the last weekend of September (DM); 1 adult and about 12 juveniles feeding and plunging for food off Cape Bear on Nov. 1 (GH).

Great Blue Heron - 2 at New Glasgow and 5 on the Dunk River on Oct. 28 (MMW). Canada Goose - hundreds off Point Prim on Nov. 14 (GH).

grant_~ about 80 in the North River on Oct. 30 (MMW).

Mallard ~ 1 male at Beech Grove Oct. 28 to Nov. 2 (DM).

Black Duck - hundreds off Point Prim on Nov. 14 (GH).

Shoveler - l at Head of Hillsborough in October (DM).

Common Goldeneze - 12 off Point Prim on Nov. 14 (GH).

Bufflehead - 4 at Webber's Cove on Oct. 24 (PD).

Oldsguaw - about 6 at Webber's Cove on Oct. 24 (PD); 25 at Point Prim on Nov. 14 (GH). Common Eider — 5 at Point Prim on Nov. 14 (GH).

Surf Scoter - 6 off Point Prim on Nov. 14 (GH).

Goshawk - l at Point Prim on Nov. 14 (GH).

Marsh Hawk - 1 female at Rose Valley on Nov. 2 (MLM).

Gray Partridge e ll at Lord Selkirk Park on Nov. 14 (GH).

Sanderling - l at Cabot Park on Nov. 8 (GH).

Iceland Gull - 1 adult at U.P.E.I. on Oct. 30 and l juvenile (with Herring Gulls) at Cavendish on Nov. 7 (GH).

Mourning Dove - 24 at Greenwich on Oct. 26 and 6 there on Nov. 7 (BS). Graz Jaz - l at Alberry Plains on Nov. 12 (PRC). Black-capped Chickadee - about 6 at St. Catherine's on Oct. 25 (GH).

Red-breasted Nuthatch - l at St. Catherine's on Oct. 25 (GH).

Golden-cr0wned Kinglet — a flock of about 1 dozen (including at least 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet) at St. Catherine's on Oct. 25 (GH).

Evening Grosbeak - l in Souris on Nov. 3 (GM).

Common RedEoll - about 2 dozen at St. Catherine's on Oct. 25 (GH).

Snow Bunting - l in the Big Pond area on Oct. 31 (GM); 20 at Strathcona on Nov. 7 (PRC); l at Cavendish on Nov. 7 (GH).

Thanks to all observers who contributed records: Rosemary Curley (PRC), Pat Doyle (PD), Geoff Hogan (GH), Dan MacAskill (DM), Gerald MacDonald (GM), Mary Lynn McCourt (MLM), Bruce Smith (BS), Miriam West (MMW).

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