Thanks go to all who took put in the counts, with special thanks extended 
     
     to Gwen Beck who organized the Montague feeder counts. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Observers were: 
     
     P.E.I. National Park: Bill Bowerbank, Rick Burger, Jamie Burton, Rosemary 
     
     Curley, Diane and Kevin Griffin, Paul Gunn, Winston Johnston, Norah 
     
     Longworth, Hugh MacCormack, Gerald MacDonald, Doug MacEachern, Joyce 
     
     MacLeod, Bob MacNeill, Dan McAskill, Arlene and Paul McGuigan, Jean 
     
     Ouellette, Elsabeth and Paul Olshelfsky and Sylvia Sterns. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Hillsborough: Bill Bowerbank, Rosemary Curley, Geoff Hogan, Winston 
     
     Johnston, Gerry Kennefic, Norah Longworth, Gerald MacDonald, Dan and Dan 
     
     McAskill Jr., Thelma Murchison, Terry Power, Sylvia Sterns, Sue Stephenson 
     
     and Liz Townsend. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Montague: Gwen Beck, Helen Beck, Rosemary Curley, Wanda Curley, Georgie 
     
     Fraser, Paul Gunn, Hilda Hilchey, Gerald MacDonald, Doug MacEachern, Olga 
     
     MacKinnon, Wade MacKinnon, Howard Norton, Bob Thompson and Blair Wood. 
     
    
   
   
    
     - Rosemary Curley 
     
     Count Compiler 
     
    
   
   
    
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     A look across the county 
     
    
   
   
    
     When there is only 3 hours of daylight, the chances of seeing a bird 
     
     is greatly reduced. In Yellowknife, NWT, participants in the annual Christ- 
     
     mas Bird Count on Saturday recorded 5 species with 946 ravens. The same day, 
     
     Inuvik, with 10 observers, reported 4 species including 265 ravens, while 
     
     in Cambridge Bay, NWT, the most northerly count area in Canada, 3 Willow 
     
     Ptarmigan, 1 arctic hare and 7 caribou were sighted. (Observers shot one of 
     
     the caribou for domestic needs.) Contrast this with 122 species of birds 
     
     sighted in the Fraser River delta of British Columbia, or even 38 species 
     
     reported from Hillsborough, P.E.I. and Cornerbrook, Nfld. The birds obvious- 
     
     ly favour higher temperatures, and while 415 birders were able to record 
     
     40+ species in Edmonton, it took 2 birders only 2 hours to chalk up 48 spe- 
     
     cies in Atlanta, Georgia. Ah, to be in Atlanta.! (RC) 
     
    
   
   
    
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     '; The Province of P.E.I. has no ecological reserves or natural areas leg- 
     
     islation but will be looking at this during the development of its Provin- 
     
     cial Conservation Strategy. It has a contract with the Island Nature Trust 
     
     for the identification and protection of natural areas in the province. The 
     
     Trust leases and manages some of the Crown's candidate natural areas in ad- 
     
     dition to its own properties. During the 1986 spring legislative sitting, 
     
     amendments were made to the Planning Act to enable the designation of scenic 
     
     heritage roads for protection. These are suitable for recreation, aesthetic 
     
     appreciation, and for the wildlife adjacent to them. 
     
    
   
   
    
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