Souris Harbour, Rollo Bay, Monticello, Cable Head, St. Peter’s Bay, 
     
     Savage Harbour, Tracadie Harbour, Brackley, and, at dusk, Rustico Island 
     
     causeway. In total we covered 374 kilometres and habitats ranging from 
     
     the dense coastal conifers at East Point to the saltmarshes of Tracadie 
     
     Bay. 
     
    

    
     All in all, it was a wondrous day. We had seen some firsts. We had 
     
     relieved the cooped up feelings of too many hours in buildings. and we, 
     
     with the assistance and support of our sponsors as well as those of other 
     
     birders, raised $ 1,018 towards the activities of the Island Nature 
     
     Trust. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In closing, on behalf of both the our team members and the Trust, 
     
    
   
   
    
     thanks to the following sponsors for your generous support: Mark 
     
     Arsenault, Bob Bancroft, Benedict, Bill Bowerbank, Brian Brown, Carl 
     
     Brydon, Rob Burnett, Barbara Clements, Beverly Cody, Ray Cooke, Isabel 
     
    
   
   
    
     Court, Verna Cudmore, Rosemary Curley, Barb Currie, Florence Deacon, 
     
     Martina Doyle, Tom Duffy, Helen Earle, Wayne Francis, Nev Garrity, Clause 
     
     Gauthier, Jerry Gavin, Beth Grant, Diane Griffin, James Halliday, Jeff 
     
     Hannam, Sharon & Vernon Harris, Fred Horne, Herbert Isherwood, Heather 
     
     Keast, Donnie Kelly, Charles Keuper, Barry King, Mr. & Mrs. Kingsbury, 
     
     Errol & Margaret Laughlin, Ann Ling, Steven Loggie, Pauline & Don 
     
     MacDonald, Shannon MacDonald, Wilbur MacDonald, Wade MacKInnon, Allie 
     
     MacLennan, Louise MacLeod, John MacMillan, Kate & Ian MacQuarrie, 
     
     Virginia MacSwainq Greg Matthews, Ken Mayhew, Dan. McAskill, Evelyn 
     
     McAskill, Barb McDonald, Brenda McDonald, Edna McDonald, Helen McDonald, 
     
     Helena McDonald, Patsy McDonald, Mechanics Inc.. Russ Melanson, Randy 
     
     Milton, Colleen Murray, Elinor Neuffer, Roberta Palmer, Pennock, Terry 
     
     Power, Paul Schurman, Chris Severance, Ardeth Smith, Bruce Smith, Allen 
     
     & Linda Thomas, Leith Thompson, Ruth VanIderstine, Venton, Jackie 
     
     Waddell, Ralph Whitehead, and Carl & Mary Willms. Thanks also to the 
     
     Friends of Macphail who took this opportunity to raise funds for both 
     
     groups. 
     
    
   
   
    
     BOTH WORK AND PLAY: by Gerald MacDonald 
     
    

    
     On June 25th, while attending the Annual General Meeting of the 
     
     Environmental Network at Cappelle, Saskatchewan, Sue Stephenson, two 
     
     other conference participants, and I were treated to a spectacular 
     
     birding experience in rural Saskatchewan. 
     
    

    
     I should state that, prior to the conference organizers asked us if 
     
     there was anything they could do to make our stay in Saskatchewan a 
     
     memorable one. I called the organizers and requested a trip to see 
     
     Borrowing Owls. 
     
    

    
     Organizers arranged for two naturalists to escort us to some pasture 
     
     lands in rural Saskatchewan where we not only saw the spectacular 
     
     Burrowing Owls standing beside their gopher-hole nesting site but also 
     
     birds such as Sprague's Pipit, LeConte's Sparrow, Yellow-headed 
     
     Blackbirds, and the Orchard Oriole. Yes, we were treated to roughly 2 
     
     1/2 hours of personal birding attention by persons skilled in the field. 
     
    

    
     After reading about the plight of the Burrowing Owl in the rural 
     
     lands of the Prairies by way of Nature Canada magazine, I never dreamed 
     
     I would actually see the bird. But, thanks to this article which 
     
    
   
   
    
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