find over 100 Species 
     
    
   
   
    
     May 31 dawned to rain and expeditions for birds, as part of the 1986 
     
     Francis Bain Birdathon, were delayed by hearty breakfasts and faint hearts. 
     
     Eventually, the tough got going and turned up the following 108 species: 
     
     Pied-billed grebe, great cormorant, double-crested cormorant, great blue 
     
     heron, american bittern, brant, mallard, black duck, northern pintail, 
     
     green-winged teal, blue—winged teal, american wigeon, ring-necked duck, 
     
     oldsquaw, common eider, white-winged scoter, red—breasted merganser, nor- 
     
     thern goshawk, northern harrier, osprey, american kestrel, ruffed grouse, 
     
     ring—necked pheasant, sora, piping plover, kildeer, black—bellied plover, 
     
     common snipe, spotted sandpiper, willett, greater yellowlegs, least sand- 
     
     piper, dunlin, great black—backed gull, herring gull, ring—billed gull, 
     
     gonaparte's gull, common tern, arctic tern, caspian tern, rock dove, mourn— 
     
     ing dove, common nighthawk, belted kingfisher, northern flicker, yellow— 
     
     bellied sapsucker, hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker, black-backed wood- 
     
     pecker, eastern kingbird, alder flycatcher, tree swallow, bank swallow, \ 
     
     barn swallow, gray jay, blue jay, northern raven, american crow, black— 
     
     capped Chickadee, boreal Chickadee, red-breasted nuthatch, winter wren, 
     
     american robin, swainson's thrush, veery, golden-crowned kinglet, ruby— 
     
     crowned kinlet, cedar waxwing, european Starling, red-eyed vireo, warbling 
     
     vireo, black and white warbler, tennessee warbler, northern parula, yellow 
     
     warbler, magnolia warbler, cape may warbler, yellow—rumped warbler, black— 
     
     throated green warbler, blackburnian warbler, bay-breasted warbler, black— 
     
     poll warbler, palm warbler, ovenbird, northern ' /;’ 
     
     waterthrush, common yellow throat, wilson's 
     
     warbler, canada warbler, american redstart, 
     
     house sparrow, bobolink, red-winged blackbird,-"‘M‘UV 
     
     rusty blackbird, common grackle, brown—headed .* 
     
     cowbird, rose-breasted grosbeak, evening gros-HEEE;,/”flr 
     
     beak, purple finch, american goldfinch, red \ 
     
     crossbill, savannah sparrow, sharp—tailed spar- 
     
     row, vesper sparrow, northern junco, chipping 
     
     sparrow, white-throated sparrow, swamp sparrow 
     
     and song sparrow. 
     
    

    
     Also seen were two garter snakes at Mt. 
     
     Albion, muskrats, red squirrels, snowshoe * 
     
     hare and mice. COMMON YELLOWTHROAT 
     
    

    
     Of the more rarely reported species, scoters and eiders were seen at 
     
     East Pt., oldsquaw at Priest Pond, sora at Covehead, willetts at Cherry 
     
     Valley, dunlin at Brackley Marsh as well as Caspian terns and arctic terns 
     
     at St. Peter's Harbour, mourning dove at Basin Head, gray jays and water— 
     
     thrush at Annandale, red crossbills in Victoria Park and vesper sparrows 
     
     at Morell Rear. 
     
    

    
     Birders were: Rosemary Curley, Brian Dalzell, Geoff Hogan, Sylvia 
     
     Furgeson, Gerald MacDonald, Margaret Mallett, Joyce MacLeod, Paul and 
     
    
   
   
    
     Arlene McGuigan, Norah Longworth and Howard Norton. Brian Dalzell topped 
     
     the list with 82 species. 
     
    
   
   
    
          
     
        
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
     - Rosemary Curley