seems to fail that if I chase a bird in other parts of the province, the same species always seems to show up around home. PEI WINTER LIST: SPECIES OBSERVED: 114 LOONS Red-throated Loon Common Loon GANNETS Northern Gannet CORMORANTS Double-crested Cormorant Great Cormorant HERONS & BITTERNS Great Blue Heron American Bittem DUCKS & GEESE Snow Goose Canada Goose Eurasian Wigeon American Wigeon Gadwall Green-winged Teal Mallard American Black Duck Northern Pintail Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Common Eider King Eider Harlequin Duck Long-tailed Duck Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Common Goldeneye Barrow's Goldeneye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Common Merganser HAWKS, EAGLES AND KITES Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Northern Goshawk Red-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk FALCONS American Kestrel Merlin Gyrfalcon GROUSE Ruffed Grouse Sharp-tailed Grouse PHEASANTS AND PARTRIDGES Gray Partridge Ring-necked Pheasant RAILS AND COOTS American Coot SANDPIPERS Purple Sandpiper GULLS Mew Gull Ring-billed Gull Great Black-backed Gull Glaucous Gull Iceland Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull American Herring Gull Black-headed Gull Bonaparte's Gull Black-legged Kittiwake by David Seeler AUKS & MURRES Dovekie Common Murre Razorbill Black Guillemot PIGEONS AND DOVES Rock Dove Mourning Dove OWLS Great Horned Owl Snowy Owl Barred Owl Long-cared Owl Short-cared Owl KINGFISHERS Belted Kingfisher WOODPECKERS Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker LARKS Horned Lark KINGLETS Golden—crowned Kinglet WAXWINGS Bohemian Waxwing Cedar Waxwing MOCKINGBIRDS AND THRASHERS Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher