Hume; Connie Ings; Gordon Jackson; Evelyn Jenkins; Ken Jenkins; Hudson Jenkins; Barb and Sonny Johnson; Marnie Johnson; Lila Jones; Gerry Kennific; Meike Keunecke; Mary Kickham; Monique Lafontaine; Carolyn & Roc Lariviere; Louise Leeco; Keith Lewis; Adam, Bill, Margie, Raymond, & Sean Loo; Gene Lund; Gerald MacDonald; Kenny A. MacDonald; Margaret MacDonald; Mark MacKenzie; Alan & Faye MacPhee; Virginia MacSwain; Margaret Mair; Tim Mair; Evelyn Martin; Fred & Gisele Martin; Dan McAskill; Janice, Arlene & Paul McGuigan; Bonnie McOrmand; Linda Munroe; Charles Mutch; Carol Nicholson; Dwaine Oakley; Melva O’Connor- Rafuse; Roberta Palmer; Jane Parker; Brenda Penak, Bruce Pigot; Megan Poole; Errol Rafuse; Ivan & Freda Reid; Ruth Richman; Heidi Rix; Maurice Roy; Gary Schneider; Anne Stewart; John Stewart; Jessie & Jim Sutton; Linda Thomas; Reg & Jean Thompson; Reg & Jill Thompson; Carole Townsend; Liz Townsend; Jean Watts; Emily & Michelle Weaver; Bill Wedge; Winston Wood; and Glenda Wright.

ANIMAL AND PLANT SIGHTINGS: Compiled by J. Dan McAskill FRC reported 50,000 snow fleas at Martinvale on Feb. 2.

Great Blue Heron - 1 above Scale’s Pond on Dec. 29 (DO); Black Duck - 115 on Feb. 1 (G&FM), approx 100 with about 20 Mallards in grain field at Fullerton's Marsh on Feb. 20-21 (JDM); Green-winged Teal - 6 on Feb. 1 (G&FM); Goldeneye - 625 on Feb. 1 (G&FM); Northern Goshawk - 1 at South Freetown on Dec. 29 (DO); Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 at Crossroad’s feeder on Nov. 28, Dec. 11, 19, 20, and Jan. 17 (DO), 1 at South Freetown on Dec 29 (DO), 1 at Fullerton’s Marsh on Feb. 26 (JDM); W- 1 chasing birds at Montague feeder Jan. 26 - 28 (GB); oug - Hawk - 1 at National Park on Jan. 25 (MR); Bald Eagle - regular sightings at Graham’s Point and Sea View in summer of 1997 (N&SB), 1 over the Indian River sanctuary on Nov. 6 (BG), immature at Ellen’s Creek on Jan. 16 (JDM), 1 feeding on pig carcases in Rocky Point area in Feb. LD on Feb. 5 at Hazelbrook (JF), 1 at Stratford on Feb. 9 (WP); - 1 at Greenwich on Feb. 2 (GK);

Gray Partridge - 10 to 12 at Sherwood feeder in early Jan. (ASu), 21 at Brackley in late Jan. (DC); Glaucous Gull - 10 at Georgetown Harbour in late Jan. (DC); Iceland Gull - 30 at Georgetown Harbour in late Jan. (DC); ke - 2 to 5 seen at Cousin’s Pond from Jul. 7 to 28 , ourning Dove - good numbers at certain feeders this winter; Belted Kingfisher - 1 in Grandview on Christmas Day (GlS); Northern Flicker — scattered sightings this winter, 1 d at Coran Ban on Jan. 11 (VM), 1 on Jan. 19 in Charlottetown (SG); Horned Lark - 30 on Feb. 1 (G&FM); American Crow - 150 in Red Head Harbour yard on Feb. 3 (MK); American Robin - Its been an incredible winter for robin sightings, flocks of up to 200 have been reported with many flocks of 30 to 50!; 20 to 30 at Malpeque in Dec. (SH), 100 at Clyde River in mid-Jan. feeding on Mt. Ash (SMacl), small flock in Prince Charles Drive area in Jan. (DGS), 30 along trail east of UPEI campus feeding on Mountain Ash in late January (TR), 1 in Sherwood on Jan. 29 (LK), G&FM seen 30 with 1 to 6 on 15 sites on Feb. 1, 1 in Mermaid on Feb. 1 (JDM & RHP), at Stratford in early Feb. (WP), 4 occasionally in

-9—