GM); Evening Grosbeak - 35 at Point Prim on Jul. 28 (DW); Pine 
     
     Grosbeak - 1 male at Point Prim on Jul. 28 (DW); Pine siskin - 
     
     taking sunflower seed at Donagh feeder most of August (JDM); 18+ 
     
     at Point Prim on Jul. 28 (DW); . 
     
    
   
   
    
     Mammal Reports: Beaver browsed a number of 5 to 6 year old 
     
     plantation grown red pine at Enmore (HI); pod of 20 whales reported 
     
     to DW sighted on Jun. 12 (DW). 
     
    
   
   
    
     Thanks to the following contributors who provided records for this 
     
     listing, namely: BBa - Bob Barwise; N&SB - Neil and Sally Bennett; 
     
     RB - Ross Bernard; EC - Elwood Coakes; RC - Ray Cooke; SC - Steve 
     
     Cheverie; BdL - Bruce Di Labio; LdL - Laurie Di Labio; PYD - Pierre 
     
     Yves Daoust; ATF - Annie Tasony-Ferraro; RG - Rachel Gautreau; GG - 
     
     Gordon Grant; JH - John Hayden; LH - Les Homans; GH - Gary Horton; 
     
     B&RH - Ben & Rosalie Hoteling; HI — Herbie Isherwood; HJ - Harold 
     
     Jenkins; MK - Meike Keunecke; GM - Gerald MacDonald; G&FM - Gisele 
     
     & Fred Martin; JDM - Dan McAskill; SM - Scott Makepeace; sma - 
     
     Scott MacDonald (Sherwood); MP - Marie Paquette; RP - Roberta 
     
     Palmer; MR - Maurice Roy; AS - Alan Saint; DGS — D.G. Stewart; LT - 
     
     Linda Thomas; DW - Donald Wilkinson; and JWa - Jean Watts. 
     
    
   
   
    
     A PIED CROW by Dan McAskill 
     
    
   
   
    
     The birding was hot for unusual 
     
     species this summer and no less so 
     
     when Ray Cooke received a report of 
     
     a Black-billed Magpie shortly after 
     
     getting several life listers for 
     
     P.E.I. Ray Cooke and I ventured up 
     
     to Miminegash and, after some 
     
     initial difficulty in finding the 
     
     described bird, viewed a black and 
     
     white crow to raven sized bird with 
     
     a massive bill that was definitely 
     
     not a magpie. We considered albino 
     
     variations of either crows or ravens 
     
     but the pattern was so distinctive 
     
     that we felt it was something 
     
     unusual. Checks of European books 
     
     did not help but Ray found an 
     
     illustration of the Pied Crow in one 
     
     of the world guides to birds. How 
     
     the Pied Crow arrived on P.E.I. will 
     
     probably never be discovered. 
     
     Perhaps it hitch-hiked on a ship or 
     
     in a container or perhaps it escaped 
     
     from a bird fancier’s establishment. 
     
     Judging by the several reports, it 
     
     certainly covered the Island while 
     
     it was visiting! 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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