This year’s success at the location of owls (four species) was 
     
     spectacular thanks mostly to Ray Cooke and David Stewart who did tape call 
     
     responses for the nocturnal owl species. One owl even called into the dawn 
     
     at Tracadie and was picked up in area 5 as was a Snowy Owl later on the 
     
     Blooming Point Sandspit. 
     
    

    
     other unusual numbers or sightings included a a Great Blue Heron, a 
     
     Northern Harrier, a Rough-legged Hawk, 3 Common Eider in the National park 
     
     count area; a Common Loon, 4 Bald Eagles, 107 Iceland Gulls, a White-breasted 
     
     Nuthatch, and 14 Song Sparrows in the Hillsborough count area; and 3 Eurasiar 
     
     Widgeons and 11 Common Grackles in the Montague count area. As has been the 
     
     pattern in recent years, the number of Mourning Dove was also up. 
     
    

    
     Jim Wilson in Southern New Brunswick reported that mainland counters ha< 
     
     also seen large numbers of robins and Cedar Waxwings. In addition, they see: 
     
     large numbers of crossbills along the New Brunswick side of the Bay of Fundy 
     
     their first winter Harris Sparrow, a Mew Gull, a Blue Grosbeak, and, in th‘ 
     
     Moncton area, 140 House Finch. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Observations Number in the Count Area 
     
     N. Park Hillsb. Montag. 
     
     Common Loon . . . . 1CP . . 1 
     
     Great Blue Heron 1 . . . 1 . . . 
     
     Canada Geese 1 . . . . . . . . 
     
     Mallard 9 . . 11 . . . 
     
     Black Duck 591 . . 381 . 278 
     
     Northern Pintail 2 . . . . . . . . 
     
     Eurasian Widgeon . . . . . . . . . 3 
     
     Ducks UID . . . . . . . . 219 
     
     Scaup spp. . . . . 24 . . . 
     
     Common Goldeneye 78 . . 220 . 218 
     
     Barrow’s Goldeneye 1 . . . 1 . . . 
     
     Oldsquaw 34 . . . 3 . . 42 
     
     Common Eider 3 . . . . . . . . 
     
     White-winged Scoter 2 . . . . . . . . 
     
     Black Scoter 1 . . . 3 . . . 
     
     Common Merganser ' 20 . . 169 . 199 
     
     Red-breasted Merganser . . . . . 3 . . . 
     
     Merganser UID . . . . . . . . . 2 
     
     Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 . . . 3 . 1CP 
     
     Red-tailed Hawk . . . . . 1 . . . 
     
     Rough-legged Hawk 1 . . . . . . . . 
     
     Bald Eagle 2 . . . 4 . . 5 
     
     Northern Harrier 1 . . . . . . . . 
     
     Merlin . . . . . 2 . . 1 
     
     Ruffed Grouse 2 . . . 7 . . 7 
     
     Gray Partridge . . . . 79 . . 3 
     
     Glaucous Gull . . . . . 3 . . . 
     
     Iceland Gull 3 . . 107 . . . 
     
     Greater Black-backed Gull 94 . . 580 . . 81 
     
     Herring Gull 500 . 1019 . . 16 
     
     Ring-billed Gull 3 . . . . . . . 1 
     
     Bonaparte's Gull 17 . . . 1 . . . 
     
     Gull spp. 43 . . . 4 . . 93