population years of mosquitos and blackflies in many years. Spring Azure at Crossroads on ~May 20 (DO). Sonya Martin - June 14 Butterflies: Very slow season for these guys but so far to date: Spring Azure's - Miscouche, Afton Road, Charlottetown (sheltered treed areas); Pink-Edged Sulphurs - Mt. Stewart, Emerald; Painted Lady- Miscouche; Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - East Royalty, Mt. Stewart; Fritillary - Mt. Stewart (1-5/8 to 2") either Silver Bordered or Meadow; Clouded Sulphurs - Emerald , and generally every where's; Cabbage Whites - Afton Road picked up a very light (pure white ) tiny spots and smaller spring version

AMPHIBIANS/REPTILES:

Many Leopard frogs seen on the Donagh Road in the mid-August to mid-September period (JDM). Tiny spring peeper (~8 mm long) on door on Sept. 11 in Donagh (JDM)

CRUSTACEA: Green crab at Cardigan Bay on Jul. 28 (SSi).

MAMMALS:

3 melanistic (black) Red Fox at North River Causeway, Rocky Point, & Fairview on Aug. 3 (LD) & 1 crossing road from Hillsborough River to Parkdale on Sept. 17 (JDM).

BIRDS: Common Loon - l at East Point on Aug. 26 (DO); Greater Shearwater - 1 at East Point on Aug. 17 (DC&ES); Sooty Shearwater - 1 at East Point on Aug. 17 (DC&ES); Northern Gannet - many at East Point on Jul. 31 (EMa), 100+ at East Point on Aug. 8 (DC&ES); Wilson’s Storm-Petrel - 3 at East Point on Aug. 8 (DO, DCS); Leach’s Storm-Petrel - based on gray colour, 1 at East Point on Jun. 7 03K), at East Point on Jul. 17 (DCS); Great Blue Heron — 42 at Rice Point on Aug. 5 (EMa), 32 at Victoria on Aug. 12 (RA); Little Blue Heron - at North Lake on Jun. 6 (DK), on Jun. 7 (DO); Black-crowned Night-Heron - immature at Borden on Aug. 16 to 22 (EMa, LH, DC&ES), at Borden on Aug. 17 (DC&ES, LH); Glossy Ibis - 3 at East Point beach on Aug. 16 (RCh via FRC); Canada Geese - 22 at Murray Harbour on Aug. 8 & 123 at John Archie’s Pond on Aug. 30 (DC&ES); Wood Duck - at Allisary Creek impoundment on Jul. 21 (DK), 2 at Borden on Jul. 18 (DCS), surprising number at Borden on Aug. 12 (RA) & 20+ on Aug. 22 (DCS, DO); Gadwall - 1 at Mount Stewart on Jun. 27 (DK); Northern Shoveler - at Mount Stewart on Jun. 27 (DK); Northern Pintail - at Mount Stewart on Jun. 27 (DK); Redhead - 1 at Clarke’s Pond on Sept. 5 (DO, DCS); Greater Scaup - 18 at Brackley Bay on Jul. 10 & 20 at Long Pond on Jul. 14 & 1 at Borden on Jul. 18 (DCS); King Eider - 1 male at East Point on Jun. 7 (DO); Common Eider - at East Point on Aug. 8 (DC&ES); Harlequin Duck - 1 male & 5 females at East Point on Jun. 10 (DO, DK); Surf Scoter - 1 at Cumberland on Jun. 24 (EMa); White-winged Scoter - 1 at East Point on Aug. 26 (DO); Black Scoter - 25 at Cumberland on Jun. 24 (EMa); Red-breasted Merganser - 1 at East Lake on Aug. 8 (DC&ES); Osprey - 1 with 3 young almost fledged in nest at Argyle Shore (LD); Bald Eagle - 1 mature feeding on dead raccoon on roadside in Southampton on Jun. 15 (JDM), immature at East Point on Aug. 26 (DO); Northern Harrier - 1 each at Covehead, Tracadie, Route 5, & Robinson’s Island on Jul. 10 (DCS), 1 male & 2 females at Alexander field on Aug. 29 with one of the females capturing a vole which was taken by a Herring Gull which was then pursued until it gave up over the bay (DO), LY reported higher than normal sightings at Argyle Shore to Hampton area this year; Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 at Richmond on Jul. 1 (DCS, EMa), 1 took a peep at Nine Mile Creek Wharf Road on Sept. 2 (DO); Northern Goshawk - l at Brookvale Provincial Forest on Sept.14 (GC); Broad-winged Hawk - 1 at Coraville on Jun. 6 (DCS), at Pleasant View near Palmer‘s Road on Jul. 1 (DCS, EMa), 1 adult at East Point on Aug. 23 (EMa); Red-tailed Hawk - 1 at York Pt. on Jun. 6 & 1 at Canavoy on Jun. 27 (DCS), 1 at Middleton on Aug. 7 (JDM), 1 at Tracadie on Aug. 28 (L&JH); American Kestrel - 1 on wires at Mount Pleasant on Jul. 13 (JDM), at Elmsdale, Oyster Bed Bridge, Cape Tryon, Harrington, and Tracadie Harbour on Jul. 1 (DCS), pair raised 1 young which fledged at Freetown on Aug. 6 (SMa); Merlin - 1 at East Point 7 at Brackley North Beach on Jul. 1 (DCS), chasing Red-winged Blackbirds at Borden Marsh on Aug. 22 (DCS, DO), 1 at East Point on Aug. 26 (DO); Peregrine Falcon - 1 at Wood Island’s on Aug. 8 (DO, DCS), at Borden on Aug. 16 (EMa, LH); Gray

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