HILLSBOROUGH COUNT

December 27, l980. 37 species, snow Buntlng 275 4028 individuals. Total party \.

miles 2l7.5 (5.5 walking, 4 4028. snowshoeing, 4 skiing,204 driving).

Toatal party hours 34 25 (4.75 Compiler, Winifred Cairns walking, 3 snowshoeing, 2.5 50 Newiand Cres. skiing, l9 driving, 5 stationary). Chariottetown Participants: Lenore Andrews, P.E.I. ,

Roger Andrews, Liz Baglole, Anna Cairns, David K. Cairns, David

l. Cairns, Winifred Cairns, Rosemary Curley, Dirk de Graaf, Danny Johnston, Winston Johnston, Norah Longworth, Karen Lowther, Clare Martin, Kathy Martin,

David_Smith. (l6 observers in W 6 parties). _ , Although life on this planet began

Canada (goose 3 I in water, most of the development Mai-iard , 4 of higher forms of animal life has giaci; guck 901 occured on land. But the return of Commori Golrjeneye 137 reptiles, mammals, and birds to an Biack Scoter 50 aquatic lifestyle has been an oft- Common iqergansey. 276 repeated theme in evolutionary Red-breasted Meroanser ll . hl§t0PY: and to see examples of Rough- legged iaawk 7 this trend we need look no farther Gray partridge 59 than our own local wildlife. Iceland Gull l . i . Great Black—backed Gull iii - If wepan imagine a chain of Herri,1g Guii 288 stepping stones from the dry Rock igove 66 land to a completely aquatic MOUYq11ng {Dove 2 eXistence, the first step Hairy Woodpecker 3 Wu” Perhaps be the mink. Downy Woodpecker 2 Mink belong to the weasel family, Biack_backed Three_toed andflikeothm~mQMmrsof Ufis

Woodpecker l famlly, they are quite at home Horned lark 28 0" land- By denm'ng in hollow Blue .Jay 88 - 1095, and feeding on voles and Commor‘ Raven 15 other land rodents, a mink Commor, Crow 434 would never have to go near Biack_capped Chickadee 69 water. But mosterm spend a Boreal Chickadee 7 great deal 0f.tlme in or near White-breasted Nuthatch 2 water, wriggling their lithe Brown (3reeper 1 bodies into muskrat houses in G0]den_CY-owned 4 Order devour Bohemian Naxwing 23 6“th 0r Pursuing fish with Stariiing 398 their rapid undulating swim. ‘ House Sparrow 300 commor, Grackie 3 One step ahead of the mink in Brown-headed Cowbird 4 the Wad toward a completely , Evening qu35beak 21 aquatic life is the beaver. pine (grosbeak i Beavers can move easily on land, Pine Siski‘n 13 but, throughout much of their . Dar~k—eyeci Junco ll range, a heave? Stepping out 'Tree Sparrow 2 0f hls Pond mUSt be ever wary

of wolves or coyotes against