NEWSLETTER NO. 22 MARCH 1977 
     
     NEXT MEETINGS 
     
    

    
     DATES: Tuesday, March 1; Tuesday, April 5, 1977. 
     
    

    
     TIME: 7:30 P.M. NOTE TIME CAREFULLY. 
     
    

    
     PLACE: Provincial Health Building, 3rd Floor, Room 47. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Enter through garage at west side of Prov. Admin. Bldg. 
     
     PROGRAM: March 1 - Films "The Forest Watchers" and "Tara's 
     
     Mulch Garden" will be shown. 
     
    
   
   
    
     March 10 - 8:00 P.M. Dr. Steven Manley will speak 
     
    

    
     in the MacKinnon Lecture Theatre, Holland College. 
     
    

    
     His Topic: Where Have All Our Trees Gone? Can We 
     
    

    
     Get Them Back? The meeting is sponsored by the Natural 
     
     History Society and the Heritage Foundation. 
     
    
   
   
    
     ANNOUNCEMENTS 
     
    
   
   
    
     MEMBERSHIP DUES are coming in well. By now paid-up memberships 
     
     will have reached 50. Rates for 1977 are: Individual, $3.00; 
     
     Family $4.00; Student $1.00. Please make cheques payable to the 
     
     Natural History Society of Prince Edward Island, c/o Miss Margaret 
     
     Mallett, 53 Fitzroy Street, Charlottetown. ClA 1R4. 
     
    
   
   
    
     LAST CALL FOR PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION ENTRIES. Any member may 
     
     submit up to six (6) nature slides taken on Prince Edward Island 
     
    

    
     in 1976. Spot all slides on lower left corner of front 9: mount. 
     
     Place slides in an envelope bearing entrant's name, address, 
     
    

    
     phone number and slide category, that is, Plant, Animal, and/or 
     
     Series of 3 to 5 slides that tell a nature story. Bring slides 
     
    

    
     to the March meeting or submit them to Margaret Mallett, 53 Fitzroy 
     
     Street, Charlottetown before March 5th. Prizes are offered. 
     
    

    
     If you take nature slides, get your entries in, then come to the 
     
     April 5 meeting to see all the entries and hear the judge's comments. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     NATURALISTS ON THE WATCH 
     
    
   
   
    
     Jan. 26/77. John Wright saw a flock of 15 robins on the U.P.E.I. 
     
     Baseball Field. From 5-15 robins have been regularly sighted in 
     
     the area since then. In addition, John has reported 9 Common 
     
     Grackles near his home in Montague. Mrs. Wright sawlilooo snow 
     
     buntings near Fredericton, P.E.I. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Jan. 27/77. Harry Morris, Lewis Point, reported 18 Robins, 3 
     
     Purple Finch, Red-winged Blackbirds (2 male, 4 female) and 15 
     
     Grackles. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Jan. 30/77. Ten Robins were observed at Tom Butler's, Winslow. 
     
     They were pecking about on a patch of bare ground. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Feb. 2/77. Mrs. Rosemary Hill, Harbour Lane, reported three 
     
    

    
     Purple Finches at her feeder. Earlier she had reported that a hawk 
     
     had scared her birds all away and there was not one to be seen for 
     
     about two weeks. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Feb. 6/77. Bruce Pigot of Mount Stewart reported seeing a very 
     
     large flock of Snow Buntings in the Savage Harbour area. They were 
     
     moving continually and impossible to count, but he estimated there 
     
     were between 2100 and 2500.