VANIHAL AND PLANT SIGHTINGS

Child carrying pussy willows in Sherwood, Apr. 23 (JDM, SS)

Eastern Chipmunk at Donagh feeder, Mar. 28 (JDM). A seal was seen rolling over and over rapidly in the water at the east end of the Hillsborough Bridge near Pier # 10 on April 2Sth.'(JDM) . .

‘Partly red and black fox sitting on lawn on Mar._30 & 31 (ABMW)

American smelt were in the creek to Doyle's Pond at Mount Stewart on April 30th (PS) and the spring peepers started calling in Donagh on May 3 (JDM). '

Pied—billed Grebe.- 1 feeding on fish at Dalvay Pond, April 25 (BB, SS)

Northern Gannet - 5 adults in open water off Dalvay, 3 sitting and 2 flying (JDM, BB, SS)

Great Cormorant H 1 at Oyster Bed Bridge on Mar. 25 (RP);

Cormorant - 1 sitting on ice at Wheatley River Bridge on Mar. 11 (BS)'

Great Blue Heron - 1 at Tracadie Bay and 3 at Head of Hillsborough Apr. 5

. (JtR); 2 at Winsloe North, Apr. 8 (carp) . . r _J'9

Brant - 200+ at Brackley Beach along with 20 Canada Geese (RP) ' ,Xygfy . -

Mallard -'pair at Bellevue Cove, Mar. 14 (RC) -. —“*‘-fff:;¥§i “ ::;;¥— - ' -. - r» 'thu ‘r/ v

Northern Pintail - l at Ellen's Creek, Mar. 25 (RC) ‘= _<!*§¥§§_§=:§§§r7

Green-winged Teal - male and female at Covehead on Apr. 20 (RP) ‘emfifi;jn;;gg ‘ Blue-winged Teal - l at Hatchery Pond in Southport on April 27 (WM)

COmmon Goldeneye v SO at Oyster Bed Bridge, Marr 25 (RP); 40 to 50 on West River at Beech Grove on Apr. 22 (A&MW); ’ u

Barrow's Goldeneye - 15 at Oyster Bed Bridge on Mar. 25 (RP)

Oldsquaw_- 40 to 50 flying offshore at Brackley, Mar, 25 (SS, BB, JDM)

Common Eider - 1 at North River causeway, Apr..17 (MK)

Red-breasted Merganser - 30 at Oyster Bed Bridge on Apr. 3 (RP); very common in mid to late April in tidal raceways at causeways and in estuaries as the ice thawed (JDM) - '

Northern Goshawk - 1 On April 17 (EC) .

Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 at Bellevue Cove feeder on Apr. 15 (SS)

Bald Eagle - 2 sitting on ice at Wheatley River Bridge, Mar. 11-(BS); 1 immature seen at Klondyke Road on Mar. 19 (WM); mature and immature feeding_Mar. 20th on Billsborough River ice (WM);

Northern Barrier - 4 were seen at Mount Herbert swooping and diving at each other on April 10 (JDM).

'Hawk sp. - client reported 5 hawks flying in kettle formation on Apr. 6 to Brian Brown; . ' .

Osprey — 1 at North River, April 19 (EC)

Gyrfalcon - 1 making a dive pass at the Hillsborough Bridge in March

Peregrine Falcon - 1 at York, Apr. 12 (JtR);

Kestrel - 1 at Ebenezer on April 27 (EC);

Gray Partridge - 2 at Bellevue Goya, Apr. 20 (SS)

Killdeer-— 1 heard calling overhead at Brackley (RP) - . Common Snipe — 1 heard at Brackley very early in morning on Apr. 5 (RP); 1 at Cherry Valley on April 21 and 1 at Sleepy Hollow on April 25 (EC)

Glaucous Gull - 3 in Summerside, Mar; 23 (RC) ‘ ‘

Iceland Gull - 25 or more at Ellen's Creek, Mar. 25 (RC); 10 plus at CharlOttetown Harbour until late May (JDM) (v

Great Black-backed Gull - 1 on Pier # 10 at Hillsborough‘Bridge on'Mar. 21; 1 on f 2, 2 on.# 4, and 1 on t 5 at Billsborough Bridge Apr. 2; 2 adults

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