AMPHIBIANS/REPTILES: Chorus of spring peepers in Georgetown on Apr. 23 (DO, DCS). Full chorus at Clyde River on 
     
     Apr. 23, two weeks ahead of earliest previous record (KM). Spring peepers started calling on Apr. 24 at Brackley, West 
     
    
   
   
    
     Royalty, & Donagh with chorus (JDM) & on Apr. 27 at Tryon (BH). Yellow-spotted salamander found in Winsloe North 
     
     about 15 to 20 cm (6 to 8 in) underground on Jun. 3 (II-Ia) . ' 
     
    
   
   
    
     MAMMALS: Flying squirrel at St. Charles feeder on Mar. 11 
     
     (SFo). Chipmunk at Crossroad‘s Feeder on Mar. 28 (DO) and 2 at 
     
     Hartsville feeder on May 19 (JWa). Three at Donagh feeder in Apr. 
     
     through Jun. (J DM). Muskrat swimming in river at Hunter River 
     
     (JWa), Mink working its way along the stream culvert at Seabrook 
     
     behind Cavendish Farms on Mar. 28 (DO). First raccoon of the 
     
     season at feeders in Crossroads on Mar. 12 with a striped skunk 
     
     visiting on and off all winter (DO). Silver fox at Rollo Bay on Mar. 
     
     11 (SFo via DO). Coyote trotting through a field towards highway 
     
     at Crossroads on Feb. 18 (DO). Coyotes appeared to respond to 
     
     taped owl calls on Feb. 23 at St. Patrick's Road (DCS, BMcO, JB). 
     
     Red fox with 2 kits about half her length at Donagh on June 19‘h 
     
     (RPh). 
     
    
   
   
    
     BIRDS: Red-throated Loon - off Rice Point on Apr. 21 (DO, 
     
     DCS); Common Loon - l at Rice Point on Apr. 25 (EMa), 2 at 
     
     Rice Point on Apr. 26 (EMa), 1 adult alternate plumage at 
     
     Robinson's Island on Apr. 28 & May 4 (DCS), 1 in breeding 
     
     plumage in bay off Robinson's Island on May 8 (DO), 4 at Rustico 
     
     Bay on May 8 (DCS), 1 on Hillsborough River at Mount Stewart on 
     
     May 15 (DO); Pied-billed Grebe - l in small pond in Cornwall on 
     
     Apr. 26 (EMa), at Mount Stewart lagoon on Apr. 30 (DCS) & May 
     
     "‘"‘"4'(DO);"‘Northern Gannet - at East Point on Apr. 12 (DCS), at 
     
     North Cape on Apr. 18 (LH), 4 at 
     
     Egrnont Bay on Apr. 21 (G&FMa), 25 at Rice Point on Apr. 26 (EMa), 6 dead gannets in a mile of beach on May 15 at Egniont 
     
     Bay during the herring fishery period (G&FMa); Double-crested Cormorant - at Victoria and North River on Apr. 18 (DCS), 
     
     50+ on Apr. 19 & 28+ at Hillsborough River in Charlottetown on May 3 (DCS); Great Cormorant - 19 in small flocks flying 
     
     in Souris Harbour on Mar. 11 (DO), 11 at East Point on Apr. 1 (DCS); American Bittern - at Mount Stewart lagoon on May 
     
     4 (DO); Great Blue Heron - l at St. Peter's on Apr. 1 (DCS), at Meadowbank Rd. on Apr. 2 (EMa), 7 at Covehead Bay on 
     
     Apr. 15 (LY), at bridge in Egmont Bay on Apr. 15 (G&FMa); Great Egret - 1 at Stratford on Apr. 28 to May 8 (JCo, EMa, 
     
     DCS, DO), 1 at East Point on May 20 (DCS), 1 at Tignish on May 24 (BMcO, JB); Snowy Egret - 1 at Basin Head on May 
     
     31 (GM, P&AM, JWa); Turkey Vulture - 1 at Wood Islands on May 4 (HVD); Snow Geese - 2 at Locke Shore Road on 
     
     Mar. 25 (LH), 1 at Meadowbank on Apr. 8 (PC); Canada Geese - 3 at Gowan Brae flying over the Souris River on Mar. 18 
     
     (DO), 4 at Argyle Shore on Mar. 21, 12 days later than last few years (LY), 50 flying at Sherwood on Mar. 26 and later 10 in 
     
     grain and potato fields on Upton Road in Charlottetown (JDM), 20 at Ellen's Creek on Mar. 28 (IE), 10 at Crossroads on Mar. 
     
     26 (DO), back at Summerside on Mar. 30 (LH); Brant - 50 to 200 at Wright's Creek on Hillsborough River in mid-March & 
     
     May 5 (LM), 2 at Wright's Creek/Hillsborough River on May 7 (DCS); Wood Ducks - pair at Mount Stewart lagoon on Apr. 
     
     21, May 7, May 31 (DO, DK, DCS), 3 at Borden Lagoon on Jun. 10 (C&EMa); Gadwell - male & female at Victoria on Apr. 
     
     18 (DCS), 9 at Gowan Brea on Mar. 18 (DO), male & female at Rollings Pond in Rustico on May 19 (JWa), 3 at Borden 
     
     Lagoon on Jun. 10 (C&EMa); American Wigeon - 2 at West River Causeway on Apr. 18 (EMa, DCS); Blue-winged Teal - 
     
     male & female at East Lake on Apr. 12 (DCS), male at Brackley pond on May 4 (DCS), 3 pairs at Mount Stewart lagoon on 
     
     May 6 (DCS), and present on 7 (DK); Northern Shoveler - male at Mount Stewart lagoon on Apr. 21 (DO, DCS), at Mount 
     
     Stewart on May 6 (DO); Northern Pintail - 4 at Nine Mile Creek on Jan. 1 & 1 on Feb. 12 (EMa), 8 at Bay Fortune on Mar. 
     
     18 (DO), male at Ellen's Creek on Mar. 19, 20, & 23 (JB), good numbers at a few locations on Mar. 29 (DCS); Green-winged 
     
     Teal - 5 at Cornwall on Feb. 12 (EMa), 2 at Ferry Road in Cornwall on Mar. 16 (EMa), 8 at Desable causeway & 10 at Tryon 
     
     Marsh on Apr. 21 (DCS); Ring-necked Duck - male at pond in Dingwell‘s Mills on Apr. 13 (DO), at North Cape on Apr. 18 
     
     (LH), 9 at Long Pond on May 4 (DGS); Greater Scaup - 3-500 at Oyster Bed Bridge on Mar. 30 (LM, BMcO), 21 male &