Wood Duck Mallard Northern Shoveler Ring-necked Duck Surf Scoter Osprey Sharp-shinned Hawk Ruffed Grouse Black-bellied Plover Greater Yellowlegs Upland Sandpiper Common Snipe Bonaparte’s Gull Great Black-backed Gull Black Guillemot Ruby-throated Hummingbird Northern Flicker Eastern Kingbird Blue Jay Tree Swallow Boreal Chickadee Winter Wren Swainson's Thrush Gray Catbird Northern Parula Yellow-ramped Warbler Palm Warbler American Redstart Common Yellowthroat Chipping Sparrow Lincoln’s Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Bobolink Common Grackle I Pine Siskin House Sparrow Pine Siskin Green-winged Teal Northern Pintail Gadwall Common Eider White-winged Scoter Bald Eagle American Kestrel Virginia Rail Piping Plover Willet Short-billed Dowitcher American Woodcock Herring Gull Caspian Tern Rock Dove Belted Kingfisher Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Blue-headed (Solitary) Vireo American Crow Bank Swallow Black-capped Chickadee Golden-crowned Kinglet Hermit Thrush European Starling Yellow Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Ovenbird Wilson's Warbler Savannah Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Red-winged Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird American Goldfinch NEIL BENNETT AUTUMN BIRDING CLASSIC American Black Duck Blue-winged Teal American Wigeon Black Scoter Red—breasted Merganser Northern Harrier Merlin Sora Killdeer Spotted Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Ring-billed Gull Glaucous Gull Common Tern Mourning Dove Downy Woodpecker Least Flycatcher Gray Jay Common Raven Barn Swallow Red-breasted Nuthatch Ruby-crowned Kinglet American Robin Nashville Warbler Magnolia Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Black-and-white Warbler Northern Waterthrush Canada Warbler Song Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Rose-breasted Grosbeak Rusty Blackbird Purple Finch Evening Grosbeak For the eight year, the Natural History Society will be working in conjunction with the Island Nature Trust to raise money for the acquisition and protection of natural areas throughout the province. This year the team will consist of Dan McAskill, Eric Marcum, Ray Cooke, Bill Bowerbank, and Michelle Johnston. On September 29“, they will take to the fields, wood, shore, and wetlands to count birds, collect sightings for the newsletter, and to raise money for the Island Nature Trust's Bird Island acquisition project. You can help by: * pledging a set amount or pledging by the species and seeing what the team can do; * contacting Barb McDonald at 566-9150 and obtaining a pledge sheet to collect