ANIMAL AND PLANT SIGHTINGS

Common Loons - 2 at Deroche Pond, June 3 (DW)

Great Blue Heron - 40+ at Tracadie Bay, June 3 (DW)

Snowy Egret - 1 in marsh and roosting in trees at Tracadie, May 11 & 12 (RM)

American Bittern - 1 at Mount Albion, April 28 (RC)

Canada Geese - 1 pair of geese using the pond, May 20 (BB, JDM)

Brant - 200 at Covehead Harbour, April 17 and 100 on April 21 (RC); 50 at Brackly Marsh on May 5 (RC)

Snow Geese - 7 or 8 overhead at Brooklyn on March 22 (RT); 2 in mid-April at Cherry Valley (JH)

Green-winged Teal - 1 female at Campbell's Pond (OW)

Eurasian Widgeon - 1 male Brackley Marsh, June 2 & 3 (RP, RC); June 5 (JDM, BH)

Northern Shovellor - 1 at Stanhope, May 22 (88a)

Greater Scaup - 60+ at Oyster Bed Bridge, April 15 (MAL)

Surf Scoter - 1 at Covehead Pond, April 21 (RC)

Turkey Vulture - 1 at Milltown Cross late March to April 11, (TB)

Northern Goshawk - 1 at Sir Andrew MacPhail, May 2 (GS)

Red-tailed Hawk - 1 at Perth Station, April 24 & 1 at Baldwin's Road, May 6 GS)

Bald Eagle - 2 immatures at Pinette on March 14 (HR); 1 at Wheatley River, April 15 (MAL); pair with chicks at Wheatley River, May 26 (DW)

Northern Harrier - 1 at Cherry Valley, April 11 (GS); 1 at Baldwin's Road, April 13; 1 at Sherwood, April 17 (RC)

Kestrel - 1 at Summerville on April 11, (GS);2 near Hunter River, April 20 (MF)

Semi-palmated Plover - 6 at Savage Harbour, May 26 (BH, S&JF, JDM)

Piping Plover — lst birds of season seen April 25 (GP)

Killdeer - 1 at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, April 1 (RC); pair with 3 chicks at Savage Harbour, June 4 (BC, BH, JDM, MK, & NL)

Black-bellied Plovers - several at Rustico sandbar, May 26 (JDM, S&JF, GP, & DeC); 5 to 10 on Conway & Cascumpec Sandhills on June 1 (JJ, AM, BB, BH, JDM, RWT); 2 at Blooming Point on June 6 (DW)

Ruddy Turnstone - 1 at Hog Island, June 2 (BB, JDM)

American Oystercatcher - 1 seen on Rustico Island Causeway, May 8 (DeC)

Black-legged Kittiwake - 2 at west end of Conway Sandhills, June 8 (DC, MF)

Ring-billed Gulls - at Ellen's Creek, March 22 (GH)

Bonaparte's Gull at Hermitage Creek (Ellen's) on March 31 (GH)

Common Terns - 9 flying about the Hillsborough Bridge Exclosures, May 3 (JDM)

Great Horned Owl - 1 at Dalvay Pond, April 21 (RC); 1 at 4:30 P.M. at Perth Station on April 24 (GS)

Northern Hawk-owl — app. May 10, 8:40 P.M. 1 mi. off coast at Cape Tormentine flying 30 ft ahead of the boat and being harrassed by 2 gulls (JO)

Barred Owl - 1 brought within 15 yards using taped calls at Elmwood, June 16 (BB, TO, JD, DW, RP, LT, JDM)

Short-eared Owl - 1 at Traveller's Rest on Jan. 19, 24, & 26. (JB); 1 in mid-April at Stanhope to Rusrico Island (GH)

Boreal Owl - 1 in mid to late April at National Park (SM)

Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 May 9, (LD); back to feeders at the Baltic, (MM);

1 at East Baltic on May 19 (ER)

Northern Flicker - 1 at Sherwood, April 23; 1 at Earnscliffe, April 27 (RC)

Pileated Woodpecker - 1 at Selkirk feeding on apple tree for 2 days lst week in June (FS)

Black-backed Woodpecker - pair at Baldwin's Road feeder, May 6 (GS)

Barn Swallow - returned to Milton, May 6 (GH)

Winter Wren - 2 at Sir Andrew MacPhail's, May 2 (GS)

Townsend's Solitaire - 1 at China Point, February 27 & 28 (JH)

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