good numbers of sightings this year (JDM, HJ); Gray Partridge - 20 on Aug. 23 at St. Catherines (EC), 20 at Toronto Road in Nov. (FC); American Coot - 1 at Indian River on Oct. 29 (LH), 1 at Long Pond on Oct. 30 (CS); Golden Plover - 24 to 120 between Aug. 7 and Oct. 5 (LH); lhimbrel - 250+ at Sea Cow Pond on Aug. 6 (LH); stilt Sandpiper - 1 at Cavendish Farms on Sept. 7 (LH); Western Sandpiper - 1 at Belmont Park on Jul. 30 and 1 at Cabot Park on Aug. 27 (LH); Wilson’s Phalarope - 3 at Georgetown about Oct. 3 (JP via JW); UID Jaeger - Oct. 15 at East Point (JDM, RC,RP, LT); Black-headed Gull - 1 at Cape Egmont in October (HA), 1 at Belvedere Pond on Nov. 7 (RC); Bonaparte’s Gull - about 6 in winter plumage skimming and dipping into the sea at Savage Harbour on

Oct. 24 (RS), 1 at Brackley Marsh on Dec. 8 (MR); Caspian Tern - 3 at Malpeque in Nov. (DB) with Arctic Terns; Black Tern - 1 at Malpeque in $09» (DB); Mourning Dove — 40 in East Royalty daily in early Nov.

(C&MW), 40 at Summerside on Dec. 6 (SE), 7 and 13 (BB); Great-horned Owl — pistol at Mooney’s Pond (RR,TD); 30 (MR); Snowy Owl - 1 in Pictou Island area on Nov. Bridge on Morell River (MH); Gray Jay - 1 all summer at Monticello (GM), 2 at Grand Tracadie on Oct. 10 (MR), 2 at Monticello on Oct. 28 (GM), 1 at Dromore on Nov. 13 (JDM, BB, LY); Red-breasted Nuthatch - the forests have been alive this autumn with very large numbers of these nuthatches, sometimes 6 or more in a single tree (JDM, RC, DW, LH), 1 at Battery Point feeder taking sunflower seed on Oct. 26 (WP); Bohemian Waxwing - groups of 80 at Stanhope and Cabot Park on Nov. 29 (BlM), this fall in Summerside area (LH), 60 to 75 in Sherwood on Dec. 7 (BB), 200 feeding on ground and in bushes in Sherwood in early Dec. (BHa); Cedar Waxwing - eating berries in Charlottetown Jul. to Sept. (EC); Northern Shrike - 1 attacking birds at Argyle Shore feeder (BC), 1 at Tracadie Harbour on Dec. 18 (JDM, BB); Pine Warbler - 1 at Indian River Reserve on Sept. 6 (LH); Palm Warbler - 2 at Cavendish on Oct. 7 & 8 (DW); Eastern Meadowlark - 1 at Monticello on Oct. (GM), 1 at Shipyard Point on Nov. 11 (JDM, BB); Red-winged Blackbird - about 100 at Mt. Albion on Nov. 12 (JDM); Northern Oriole - 2 males in East Royalty on May 28 (EC), 1 heard

1 in Parkdale/Sherwood on Dec. 1 coming to the sound of a scare Short-eared Owl - 1 at Dalvay on Oct. (CS), 1 at Grant’s

in Sherwood on Jul. 1 (EC), 1 in Sherwood hedge and visiting feeder from Dec. 7 to 13 (BHa); Common Grackle - 3 at West Point on Dec. 7 (ME via HM), 1 at Upton feeder last winter and this winter (RRi); Northern

Cardinal - female in Charlottetown in Sept. (JD); 1 male on Oct. 20th at feeder and both male and female on Oct. 22 the one or both seen to the 25th (EH via WP), 1 at New Annan on Oct. 27 (BM), male and female near Hunter River about Nov. 1 (FL), 1 female at feeder in West Royalty on Nov. 10 (DL), 2 at Rustico feeder on Nov. 14 (N&EM via EM), 1 female at Southwest Lot 16 on Dec. 2 & 3 (MCM via VMacN), 1 female at Summerside on Dec. 6 (SE), 1 in West Point on Dec. 7 for last 2 weeks (ME through HM), 1 in Mount Stewart Dec. 1 - 7 (BPi), l at Montague from mid-Nov. to mid- Dec. (NP, LM via RRi); Indigo Bunting - 1 at Bayside on Apr. 30 (LB); Dickcissel - 1 at Chan's (P&CH via BP); Evening Grosbeak - 8 or 9 at West Point feeder on Dec. 7 (ME via EM), 110 at Upton feeder in Dec. (RRi); House Finch - male feeding young on Aug. 20 at Bangor (JK), male and female reported in Summerside on Dec. 6 (SE); Common Redpoll - 1 at Cabot Park on Nov. 29 (BlM); Red Crossbill - 8 at Grand Tracadie on Nov. 8 (MR); American Tree Sparrow - 2 at Donagh feeder (JDM), 2 at Upton

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