for the following bird species on P.E.I. please drop a note to the newsletter so that we can update our early spring

sightings record list. SPECIES EARLIEST DATE

BY GEOFF HOGAN

The following dates are the earliest updated spring sightings we have

SPECIES

Pied-billed grebe April 20 Double-Crested cormorant April 1 Great blue heron March 11 American bittern April 20 Canada goose February 24 Brant April 5 Gadwall April 26 Green-winged teal March 9 Blue-winged teal April 2 American wigeon March 2 Ring—necked duck April 9 Northern harrier March 25 Osprey April 8 American kestrel March 24 Piping plover April 24 Killdeer March 28 Black-bellied plover May 16 American woodcock April 13 Common snipe April 6 Upland sandpiper May 19 Spotted sandpiper May 2 Willet May 8 Greater yellowlegs April 13 Least sandpiper May 26 Dunlin May 22 Semipalmated sandpiper May 20 Ring-billed gull March 30 Common tern May 1 Caspian tern April 21 Black guillemot April 21 Short-eared owl April 22 Common nighthawk May 24 Chimney swift May 15 Ruby-throated hummingbird May 18 Belted kingfisher March 13 Northern flicker March 10 Yellow-bellied sapsucker April 7 Eastern kingbird May 13 Eastern phoebe May 29 Alder flycatcher May 30 Least flycatcher May 26 Eastern wood pewee May 24 Olive—sided flycatcher May 31 Yellow-bellied flycatcher June 2 Tree swallow April 16

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Bank swallow

Barn swallow

Gray catbird

American robin

Hermit thrush Swainson's thrush Veery

Ruby-crowned kinglet Cedar waxwing Solitary vireo Red-eyed vireo

Black & white warbler Tennessee warbler Nashville warbler Northern parula Yellow warbler Magnolia warbler

Cape May warbler Yellow-rumped warbler

Black-throated blue warbler Black—throated green warbler

Blackburnian warbler Chestnut-sided warbler Bay-breasted warbler Blackpoll warbler

Palm warbler

Ovenbird

Northern waterthrush Mourning Warbler Common yellowthroat Wilson's warbler American redstart Bobolink

Red-winged blackbird Northern oriole

Rusty blackbird

Common grackle

Scarlet tanager Rose-breasted grosbeak Savannah sparrow Vesper sparrow Chipping sparrow White-crowned sparrow White-throated sparrow Fox sparrow

Lincoln's sparrow Swamp sparrow

Song sparrow

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EARLIEST DATE

May 6 April 23 May 12 March 1 _ May 5 May 14' May 26 April 21 May 31 May 21 May 19 May 12 May 11 May 16 May 12 May 10 May 19 May 12 April 23 May 19 May 12 May 21 May 19 May 26 May 18 April 26 May 19 May 19 May 10 May 14 May 27 May 18 May 11 March 3 May 16 April 1 March 1 May 15 April 30 March 26 April 25 April 30 April 20 April 16 March 8 March 31 May 2 March 2