Lake Darner Aeshna eremita 
     
    
   
   
    
     Variable Darner Aeshna interrupta interrupta 
     
    

    
     Subarctic Damer Aeshna subarctica 
     
    

    
     Black-tipped Darner Aeshna tuberculifera b I 
     
    

    
     Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa umbrosa L‘ L; ’“W’W .UHLF'“ 1357 
     
     ' Hudsonian Whiteface Leucorrhinia hudsonica Chink-"om Skimmer 
     
    

    
     Red-waisted Whiteface Leucorrhinia proxima 
     
    

    
     American Emerald Cordulia shurtlefi'i 
     
    

    
     Petite Emerald Dorocordulia Iepida 
     
    

    
     Racket-tailed Emerald Dorocordulia Iibera 
     
    

    
     Brush-tipped Emerald Somatochlora walshii 
     
    

    
     Chalk-fronted Skimmer Libellulajulia 
     
    

    
     Common Whitetail Libellula lydia 
     
    

    
     Four-spotted Skimmer Libellula quadrimaculata 
     
    
   
   
    
     Saffron-winged Meadowhawk .Sfivmpetrum costzferum 
     
     White-faced Meadowhawk sympetrum obtrusum 
     
     Yellow-legged Meadowhawk sympetrum vicinum 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ** denotes a different collecting site from our records 
     
    
   
   
    
     BIRDING OFFSHORE AND NORTHEASTERN PEI by J. Vernon Laux 
     
    
   
   
    
     The summer has passed all too quickly. I have been here, tuna fishing and birding for a couple of 
     
     weeks in mid-August. Lots of birds just north of the island in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, 4 to 5 miles 
     
     offshore. Gannets, hundreds of Greater Shearwaters, dozens of Sooty Shearwaters, thousands of Wilson's 
     
     Storm-Petrels, several trips as many as 35 Red-necked Phalaropes, approximately a dozen first and 2nd year 
     
     Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 32 Black Guillernots in a flock in breeding plumage 5 miles ofi‘ North Lake on 
     
     22"“, and a couple of Black-legged Kittiwakes. 
     
    

    
     In the last two weeks, the highlights all seem to involve birds on Somis Causeway. Stilt Sandpiper 
     
     (adult) on 16th, 2 Western Sandpipers on 17th, Baird's Sandpiper 18th and 23rd with Dan Kennedy and Eric 
     
     Marcum, juvenile, Little Gull on 23rd on Causeway , Black-headed Gull at Rollo Bay on 23rd with Dan 
     
     Kennedy and Eric Marcum, White-winged Crossbills and Pine Siskins regular now at East Point. No 
     
     unexpected landbirds but good numbers of warblers. A couple of Goshawks and immature Red-tailed Hawks 
     
     at point and fair numbers of Kestrels, Merlins and Sharp-shins. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Today, Monday the 26th, just came from East Lake at 6 PM. where there were 3 Baird's Sandpipers, 2 
     
     Pectoral Sandpipers and 2 first summer Lesser Black-backed Gulls. 
     
    
   
   
    
     ASSESSING WINTER FINCH ABUNDANCE by Ron Pittaway and Jean Iron, 
     
     President, Ontario Field Ornithologists 
     
    
   
   
    
     I've been assessing the seed crops developing on trees and shrubs in central 
     
     Ontario north of Toronto. This area is bounded by Lake Ontario to the south, Georgian 
     
     Bay to the west, the Ottawa River to the north, and St. Lawrence River to the east. I 
     
     asked Ron Tozer in Algonquin Park for his seed crop assessment. Mike Turner in 
     
     Haliburton and Mike Walsh in Muskoka, both with the Ministry of Natural Resources, 
     
     also advised me of seed crops in their areas. Even this early in the season, it's already