NEWSLETTER No. 30 MARCH 1978 
     
     NEXT MEETING 
     
    

    
     Time: 8:00 p.m., Tuesday, March 7, 1978 
     
    

    
     Place: Provincial Health Building, 3rd Floor, Room 47. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Program: Rick Pratt, the environmental specialist from the 
     
     Canadian Nature Federation, is coming to P.E.I. to present the 
     
     Federation's stand at a public meeting on the Future of Deroche. 
     
     He is interested in meeting many Islanders and has consented to 
     
     giving a presentation at our March meeting. This will be an 
     
     excellent opportunity to hear first hand the past, present and 
     
     future concerns and activities of the Canadian Nature Federation. 
     
    
   
   
    
     ANNOUNCEMENTS 
     
    
   
   
    
     Future of Deroche? 0; Wednesday evening, March 8 at 8:00 p.m. 
     
     there will be a public meeting in Tracadie Hall to discuss 
     
     future land use plans for the Deroche area. This meeting was 
     
     requested by the Natural Areas Advisory Committee and will be 
     
     presided by the Land Use Commission. Our society will be 
     
     presenting a short brief. All members are requested to attend 
     
     this meeting in Tracadie where local residents, land owners and 
     
     interested citizens will be urged to voice their concerns and 
     
     desires for Deroche. 
     
    
   
   
    
     MEMBERSHIP DUES PAID FOR 1978: 55 Regular, 10 Family, and 
     
    

    
     5 Student. With this Newsletter, a FINAL NOTICE is being 
     
     included for each person who has not yet renewed membership 
     
     for 1978. There will be THREE WEEKS to renew in order to keep 
     
     the Newsletter going out with interruption. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Cheques should be made out to: 
     
     THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF P.E.I., c/o Margaret Mallett 
     
     53 Fitzroy Street, Charlottetown, P.E.I. ClA 1R4 
     
    
   
   
    
     A CHANGE IN OUR CONSTITUTION is necessary for the Natural History 
     
     Society to officially become a non—profit organization, with tax- 
     
     free status. This will be beneficial with reference to our 
     
     financial dealings with the Canadian Nature Federation Conference 
     
     next August. We hereby serve notice that proposed changes will 
     
    
   
   
    
     be brought to the floor at March 1978 Natural History Society 
     
     meeting. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Constitution and By-laws must be amended to include a non-profit 
     
     clause to the effect that: 
     
     the organization shall be carried on without the purpose of 
     
     gain for its members, and any profits or other accretions 
     
     to the organization shall be used in promoting its objects. 
     
    
   
   
    
     WHERE DO BIRDS FIND SHELTER DURING WINTER NIGHTS? In mid-February, 
     
     as I walked home past the telephone building on Fitzroy Street, 
     
     near dusk, I heard some sparrows having an altercation. Looking 
     
     up to the second storey, I saw an English Sparrow that refused 
     
    

    
     to be ousted from the perch it had selected in a vertical recess 
     
     running up the side of the brick building. The recess is 4" wide 
     
     and 4" deep. It gives shelter on three sides but is exposed to 
     
     the north. An ivy branch curved into the recess, providing a 
     
     roost. Similar neighboring recesses also had sparrow tenants. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Margaret Mallett 
     
     Charlottetown, P.E.I.