FROGS, TOADS, SALAMANDERS, AND SNAKES by Dan McAskill 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Natural History Society will coordinate a monitoring project on 
     
     frogs, toads, salamanders and snakes to determine the abundance and 
     
     distribution across Prince Edward Island. Concerns have been raised over . 
     
     declines in the populations of amphibians on a world wide basis and this 
     
     project will attempt to provide information on what is happening on the 
     
     Island. The Society is looking for volunteers who would be willing to either 
     
     set up a listening post at their home to identify and collect information on 
     
     the singing of the various frogs and the American toad and/or to venture out 
     
     over specified routes to listen and record similiar information. Anyone 
     
     interested should fill in the sheet inserted with the newsletters and mail it 
     
     to Dan McAskill at RR # 5, Charlottetown, P.E.I. C1A 7J8. An information kit 
     
     will be sent to potential participants and, at a future date, an audio 
     
     cassette of the amphibian calls will be sent to those who decide to 
     
     participate. As a part of this project, two or more Sounds of the Night 
     
     presentations will be offered to aid naturalists in the identification of 
     
     amphibians, owls, and other night animals. 
     
    
   
   
    
     NATURE LOVER'S ASSISTANCE REQUIRED by Rosalind Waters 
     
    
   
   
    
     P.E.I. Citizen Advocacy is looking for an advocate for a man who is in 
     
     his fifties and has a mental handicap. Over the past twelve months we have 
     
     discovered that he likes to be in the woods, likes to go bird watching, and 
     
     has talked about fishing. Because he has been institutionalized for a large 
     
     part of his life, this side of him has had little opportunity to flourish. He 
     
     has nobody in his life except for professional care givers. He would love to 
     
     have a friend who would take a special interest in him, take him out (perhaps 
     
     into the woods) from time to time. If you are interested in being this 
     
     person, or just finding out more about Citizen Advocacy, please call Rosalind . 
     
     Waters at 566-3523. 
     
     air. §!§\:?‘32 P.E.I. Citizen Advocacy receives funds from the United 
     
     W+L\ Way and the Law Foundation of P.E.I. It is a unique Island 
     
     \¢ organization which recruits volunteers in the community and 
     
     matches them on a one-to-one basis with a person who has a 
     
     mental handicap. The volunteer (advocate) develops a 
     
     .i‘ . friendship with that person, looks out for them, and ensures 
     
     ’ that they are not denied opportunities to participate in the 
     
     community of which we are all a part. 
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ANIMAL AND PLANT SIGHTINGS 
     
    
   
   
    
     One striped skunk along Appin Road on Nov. 18 and one mink on ice of Wilmot 
     
     River on Dec. 24 (PF). Coyote seen crossing the Hillsborough Bridge around 
     
     Jan. 1 (PM). 51 seals resting on bar at mouth of Fortune River, Dec. 10 (BC?) 
     
    
   
   
    
     Cormorant - 1 at Hillsborough Bridge on Jan. 15 (AM); Northern Gannet - 144, 
     
    

    
     some in a feeding frenzy plus some resting on the water on Nov. 28th at East 
     
     Point (BCP); Canada Geese - 100 at Bellevue Cove on Dec. 25 (SS); Barrow's 
     
     Goldeneye - 1 pair at North River on Jan. 3 (SM, JB) with 400+ Common 
     
    

    
     Goldeneye (SM, JB); Bufflebead - 5 at Black Pond on Nov. 14 (BCP); Northern 
     
     Goshawk — 1 at Crapaud on Dec. 30 (TX); Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 at Crapaud 
     
     throughout Dec. (TK); Rough-legged Hawk - 1 dark colour morph at China Point 
     
    

    
     on Dec. 15 (RC); Bald Eagle - 1 immature on Dec. 28 in Donagh (JDM); 1 adult 
     
    

    
     at Crapaud on Jan. 14 (EH & BeH); Northern Harrier - l at Sleepy Hollow on I 
     
     Dec. 30 (EC); Gray Partridge - 10 at Crapaud on Jan. 2 (TR); 2 at Tryon feeder . 
     
     in Jan. (BeH) 
     
    
   
   
    
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