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     bellivd Plnvvr and tho color of this bird would easily 
     
     distinguish it. This would be in the early l920‘s. 
     
    

    
     My uncles in Brudenell 
     
    

    
     were ardent gunners 
     
    

    
     and often hunted Field 
     
     Plover as they were then 
     
     called. Very often they 
     
     w0uld come from Brudenell 
     
     to Summerville, because 
     
    

    
     at that time, the Summerville 
     
     area had much larger areas 
     
     of open fields than either 
     
     New Perth or Brudenell and 
     
     it was in Summerville that 
     
     larger flocks were to be 
     
     found. This hunting took 
     
     place about the turn of the 
     
     century.” 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     SIGHTING OF A NORTHERN THREE-TOED WOODPECKER 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     In February, Kevin Hughes from Corran Bann observed a female northern three- 
     
     toed woodpecker upstream on the Winter River near a log cabin. He 
     
    

    
     watched it for several minutes from a distance of approximately 15 feet as 
     
    

    
     it chipped away on a dead red spruce stripping the bark from the top to bottom. 
     
     The ladder stripping on the back and sides was distinct, hence it could 
     
    

    
     not be an Artic Three-Toed Woodpecker. Mr. Hughes is quite familiar with 
     
     downy and hariy woodpeckers which also exist in that area. This represents 
     
    

    
     a positive sighting of a species previously listed as hypothetical on the 
     
     P.E.l. field checklist of birds. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Northern Three-toed Woodpecker breeds all across Canada. Its southern 
     
     and eastern limits are poorly defined, but it breeds in Newfoundland, 
     
     Anticoste Island and Northern New Brunswick.. In Nova Scotia there are 
     
     sight records only. (W.E. Godfrey, l976, The Birds of Canada). 
     
    
   
   
    
     More recently, Mr. Hughes observed an arctic three-toed woodpecker also work- 
     
     ing on a dead red spruce. Mr. Hughes noted that the work of the three- 
     
    

    
     toed woodpeckers on trees was much more obvious than that of the downy and 
     
     hariy woodpeckers. l have observed sapSucker activity there and flickers 
     
    

    
     are also common. Hence, the winter River area has all species of Woodpeckers 
     
     which occur. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Kathy Martin 
     
    

    
     Biology Department 
     
     University of P.E.l. 
     
     Charlottetown, P.E.l. 
     
    
   
   
    
     NATURALISTS ON THE WATCH 
     
    
   
   
    
     This month we have a c0nsiderable volume of sightings because sightings 
     
    
   
   
    
     received for February, March and April were not included in the last 
     
     two newsletters. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Thelma -Murchison at a Bélfast Cammunity School Meeting this winter told 
     
     us that others saw a Mocking bird at Pinette in the spring of 1976 (May or 
     
    
   
   
    
     June) early in the evening. It sang a whole repertoire of songs, stopped 
     
     and then repeated all of them again.