on one and/or the other of the counts. Rick left at the end of 1972 to go to 
     
     Kejimkujik National Park and Joan Saunders became Park Naturalist. She guided 
     
     us on some walks in the P.E.I. National Park, joined our Society, and compiled 
     
     the second Christmas Bird Count. Since then, John Wright, David Cairns, 
     
     Winifred Wake, Geoff Hogan, Rosemary Curley, and Dan McAskill coordinated the 
     
     counts. For many years there was keen competition for the "Cookie Ladies'“ zone 
     
     where the lucky counters were treated to the finest Christmas baking. In 1983, 
     
     Winifred Cairns started the Montague "fun count" for birders in eastern Prince 
     
     Edward Island. When she left for Ontario, Rosemary Curley and later Gary 
     
     Schneider took over the organization of this count. Over the years various 
     
     individuals hosted the social potlucks at which counters gloated over their 
     
     rarities or defended their sightings. The Hillsborough Count was featured as 
     
     the kickoff event for Wildlife '87, the centennial of wildlife conservation in 
     
     Canada. 
     
    

    
     Some years, in the autumn, a small group of Island birders left their cars 
     
     at Wood Islands and took a ferry trip across the Northumberland Strait to see 
     
     what landlubbers usually miss. The last time, they counted 18 species of birds 
     
     and some seals. They took their lunches and had a picnic on board. What a great 
     
     idea! 
     
    
   
   
    
     BONSHAW HILLS TRAIL 
     
    
   
   
    
     October 27, 1973 saw the opening of the Bonshaw Hills Trail. Eight persons 
     
     from our Natural History Society met at the Crapaud Curling Club with about 50 
     
     other persons. The ladies of the Englewood Water Safety committee served coffee 
     
     and doughnuts on arrival. A series of Bonshaw Hills Trail slides were shown by 
     
     Dave Morgan, Chairman of Renewable Resources, Holland College. The slides 
     
     certainly were timely and greatly enjoyed by all. Dr. Walter R. Shaw was in his 
     
     element as he happily endorsed the making of the Bonshaw Hills Trail and 
     
     reminisced about wildlife encounters in his own woods in St. Catherine's where 
     
     the Bonshaw Hills Trail begins. We went to Appin Road where Dr. Shaw cut the 
     
     ribbon to open the trail. About 20 persons set out to walk the trail to Green's 
     
     Brook and back. Light rain was falling but it stopped after a while. 
     
    
   
   
    
     MEMORABLE OUTINGS 
     
    
   
   
    
     Four other walks stand out in our memories from among many other nature 
     
     outings that we had. 0n Valentine's day 1970 there was bare ground, the 
     
     temperature was zero F.(-18 degrees C.), and Bob Gray led a walk in Sir. Andrew 
     
     MacPhail Provincial Park at Orwell. At lunchtime we made a fire in a fireplace. 
     
     Ruth Ross hung some Valentine hearts on a tree and she even cooked some 
     
     sausages. We ate our lunch while standing around the fire. At the next meeting, 
     
     on March 5, 1970, there was no trouble to get a decision that, for going on a 
     
     field trip, the bottom line temperature should not be lower than 15 degrees 
     
     F.(-9.4 degrees C.). 
     
    

    
     On Sept. 30, 1972, on a cloudy, warm day on the north end of Appin Road 
     
     Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Lothian joined us for a ramble through field and forest to a 
     
     lane that led back to Appin Road at a point about a quarter mile from our cars. 
     
     The Lothians graciously invited us to their Sylvan hideaway "Appinwood" to have 
     
     our lunch by their outdoor fireplace. There was a charming little spring brook 
     
     running past that supplied running water in the house. 
     
    

    
     Another outing is memorable because of the wonderfully sunny day 20 
     
     degrees F. (about -6 degrees C.). Leaving our cars on the East Suffolk Road, a 
     
     group of eight snowshoed or just walked (either was fine) along the old East 
     
    
   
   
    
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