.3 GIANT FALLS: by Dan McAskill 
     
    
   
   
    
     During the past 130+ years, many storms have raged across this province. 
     
     A small number of trees have survived these blows, sometimes with the 
     
     assistance of their neighbours and sometimes through their own strength and 
     
     tenacity. One of the longest living veterans of these struggles in the 
     
     Charlottetown area came to sudden end on the night of February 4th. This 
     
     gentle giant had yielded limbs to these onslaughts in the past but, on this 
     
     fateful night, it succumbed in total as it collapsed into the Royalty Oaks 
     
     woodlot to which it helped give birth. This massive oak, the largest known 
     
     oak in the province, measured 1.5 meters (5.0 feet) in diameter at 1.3 meters 
     
     above the ground. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
          
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
          
     
    
   
   
    
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     by Brian Dalzell 
     
    
   
   
    
     WHO WILL SEE THE FIRST HUMMER? 
     
    
   
   
    
     If you make a point of feeding Ruby-throated Hummingbirds during the 
     
     .aring and summer, then you could make a valuable contribution. towards 
     
     understanding the timing of this species' migration. Volunteers are needed 
     
     on P.E.I. to record the first arrival dates of male and female ruby-throats 
     
     at hummingbird feeders in 1995. 
     
    

    
     Simply make sure your feeders are 
     
     up by the first of May, and record 
     
     the date when you see your first 
     
     male ruby-throat (the males arrive 
     
     first), and then the first female. 
     
     Send this information to Hummertime, 
     
     c/o Queen's University Biological 
     
     Station, Box 31, RR # 1, Elgin, 
     
     Ontario KOK 1E0. You can phone the 
     
     results to 613-359-6423. Be sure to 
     
     leave your name and mailing address 
     
     if you do. 
     
    

    
     All participants will receive a copy of the results of the project 
     
     sometime during the fall of 1995 or early in 1996. If you are reading this 
     
     notice after the spring arrival of hummingbirds in your area, you can still 
     
     make a note of when male and female hummers are last seen at your feeders in 
     
     August and September and forward the information to the Hummertime. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Editor's Note: The Society will forward hummingbird sightings for this 
     
     project so if you send in the information to the Editor of the Island 
     
     iaturalist it will be sent along to Hummer. 
     
    
   
   
    
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