- 6 at Covehead, August 6 (05, SM) 
     
     Baird's Sandpiper - 2 at Murray Harbour North, August 6 (SM, 05) 
     
     - 1 at Covehead Inlet, August 18 (DS) 
     
     Least Sandpiper - 8 at Ellen's Creek, August 1 (SM, 05) 
     
     - 25 at Covehead Inlet, August 18 (DS) 
     
     Semipalmated Sandpiper - 15+ at Blooming Point, July 31 (SM, JDM) 
     
     - 10 at Covehead Inlet, August 3 (05, SM) 
     
     - 37 at Murray Harbour North, August 10 (SM, 05) 7g 
     
     - 60 at Covehead Inlet, August 18 (DS)  
     
     western Sandpiper - 1 at Covehead Harbour, August 18 (DS) __: _._4§ 
     
     Sanderling - 11 at Brackley Beach, August 8 (SM, 05) ;m.mmm 
     
     - 43 at Murray Harbour North, Augsut 10 (SM, 05) 
     
     Short-billed Dowitcher - 300 at Ellen‘s Creek, July 31 (DS, SM) 
     
     Marbled Godwit - 1 at Desable with 8 Hudsonian Godwits, August 3 (DS, SM) 
     
     Hudsonian Godwit - 7 at Brackley Beach, August 7 (SM, DS) 
     
     - 4 at Summerside, August 19 (DS, JDM) 
     
     Hilson's Phalarope - 1 at Covehead in tidal pool, August 16 (SM, 05) 
     
     Great Black-backed Gull - 1 killed and ate an immature, fully grown Herring 
     
     Gull at Beach Point, August 4 (SM, 05) 
     
     Bonapartes Gull - 12 at Argyle Shore, July 29 (DG) 
     
     - 74 at Covehead Inlet, August 7 (SM, DS) 
     
     - 6 at North Lake, August 9 (A&BS) 
     
     Little Gull - 1 at Summerside, August 17 (05) 
     
     Arctic Tern - 1 at Murray Harbour North, August 4 (05, SM) 
     
     - 4 at Covehead Inlet, August 18 (DS) 
     
     Caspian Tern - 3 at Covehead Inlet, August 3 (05, SM) 
     
     - 2 at Desable, August 3 (05, SM) 
     
     - 12 at Covehead Inlet, August 16 (SM, 05) 
     
     - 17 at Covehead Harbour, August 23 (SM, JDM) 
     
     Mourning Doves - 2 seen on August 4th, (DH) 
     
     Black-billed Cuckoo - 1 carrying food at North Enmore, August 4 (05) 
     
     Great Horned Owl - 1 at New Zealand, July 20 (DH) 
     
     Long-eared Owl - 1 drinking from puddle, Cedar Dunes Park, August 19 (DH) 
     
     Common Nighthawk - several seen at Cedar Dunes Provincial Park, August 19 (DH) 
     
     Eastern Kingbird - 1 at Hest Point, August 20 (DH) 
     
     Hillow Flycatcher - 1 at East Baltic, July 27 (DH) 
     
     - 1 at Union Corner, August 7 (MS) 
     
     American Crow - approximately 1,500 roosting at Beach Grove, August 14 (05, SM) 
     
     Northern Mockingbird - 1 in a maple on lawn in Milo, June 1 (AC) 
     
     Philadelphia Vireo - 1 adult with 2 fledglings at North Enmore, August 4 (DS) 
     
     Black & Hhite Harbler - 1 at East Baltic, 18 July (DH) 
     
     Hilson's Harbler - 1 singing at North Enmore, August 4 (05) 
     
     Common Grackle - 100 at New Argyle, August 24 (MSc) 
     
     Purple Finch - 3 males and 2 females at feeder in Hebron, May 7 - 31 (AC) 
     
     - family nesting at Campbell Cove, July 27 - 31 (DH) 
     
     Pine Siskin - 20 at feeder in Hebron, May 7 - 31 (AC) 
     
     - family unit of 12 attending young, July 27 - 31 (DH) 
     
     - 2 at Beach Grove, August 10 (DS) 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Thanks to all those who contributed sightings. This issue's contributors were: 
     
     AC - Alice Clements; DG - Diane Griffin; MK - Margaret Koren; JDM - Dan 
     
     McAskill; SM - Scott Makepeace; A&BS - Anne & Bill Stewart; DS - Dwayne Sabine; 
     
     MS - Mary Smith; MSc - Margaret Scott; DH - Donald Hilkinson. 
     
    
   
   
    
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