early June (JDM); Black Guillemot - 5 at East Point on Oct. 11 (PJ), 3 off Cape Bear 
     
     on Nov. 14 (JDM, RPh); Black Guillemot — 12 nesting at Sea Cow Head summer 98 (LH), 
     
     1 passed off shore at East Point between 0930 and 1200 on Oct. 31 (BD), 10 passed off 
     
     shore at Cape Bear between on Nov. (JDM, RPh); mourning Dove - numerous reports and 
     
     sightings across the Island this summer; Great Horned Owl - 1 at Fullerton's Marsh 
     
     on Oct. 26 and 1 heard on Nov. 3 (DO); Northern Saw-whet Owl - 1 calling in November 
     
     in Donagh (JDM); Nighthawk — one flying along driveway in Argyle Shore in mid-August 
     
     (BC); Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 feeding on flowering tobacco (Nicotiana) in 
     
     September (LD); Northern Flicker - 6 in one yard at H milton on Aug. 29 (JDM); 
     
     bellied Woodpecker — 1 at Long Creek on Nov. 25 (DH); bated Woodpecker - 2 at 
     
     Selkirk on Aug. 31 (GM); Downy Woodpecker - feeding young at Victoria Park in beech 
     
     tree cavity on Jun. 6 (EC); Tree Swallow - 2 inspected new nest box on Jul. 8 after 
     
     2 successive attempts yielded dead young, 5 over Savage Harbour Bay on Jul. 8 (HG); 
     
     Gray Jay - 2 mature & 1 immature at Selkirk on Jul. 19 (GM); Black-backed Woodpecker 
     
     — 1 at Tracadie Cross on Oct. 19 (MA); Blue Jay - 200 hundred milled around East 
     
     Point at dawn on Oct. 11 (PJ); Brown Creeper - 1 on Sept. 7 in Morell area (GK), 1 
     
     at Crossroads feeder on Nov. 8 (DO); Winter Wren - 1 at Selkirk on Jul. 19 (GM), 
     
     nest reported on Aug. 10 at Long Creek (AD), on Farmlands Trail in Sept. (JP), 1 at 
     
     East Point on Oct. 11 (PJ), 1 in Tracadie Cross on Oct. 19 (MA); Golden—crowned 
     
     Kinglet - 300 on Oct. 11 (PJ); Water or American Pipit - l at Blooming Point on Jun. 
     
     2 (JW), 2 at Black Pond on Oct. 11 (PJ); Northern Mockingbird - 1 at Flat River on 
     
     May 21 (RD), 1 in Summerside on Jun. 20 (LH); 1 in East Royalty on Jul. 7 (KLo, PM), 
     
     1 in Charlottetown in 1st week of oct (LI);~ American Robin - flocks of 20 to 50 at 
     
     Hampton (JDM)L 2 000 thousandfldropped from the sky at dawn at East Point on Oct. 11 
     
     (PJ); "vii: k §;.‘ ; 1‘:'y at Tracadie Cross on Oct. 19 (MA); Wood Thrush — l in 
     
     East Keppock on approx. Sept 14 (JB); Northern Shrike - 1 at Stanhope in Oct. (KM, 
     
     CB); Red-eyed Vireo - 1 in Morell area on Sept. 7 (GK); Palm Warbler — 1 at Black 
     
     Pond on Oct. 11 (PJ); Rusty Blackbird - 1 at Selkirk on Jul. 19 (GM); Common 
     
     Grackle - JdL reported ver high numbers near Georgetown with 24 mobbing a single 
     
     crow in early June; ‘5“ 1 — 1 at Charlottetown feeder in Nov. (LT); Evening 
     
     Grosbeak - 6 at Donagh in larch feeding on seed in late Oct. (JDM); Hoary Redpoll - 
     
     1 at New Annan Road on Apr. 13 (LH); Red Crossbill - flock eating spruce seed and 
     
     warbling on Jul. 19 at Selkirk (GM); American Goldfinch — 2 eating cosmos seeds in 
     
     flower bed on Jul 23 (HG); White-winged Crossbill - at Northumberland Park on Aug. 
     
     15 (BHa), 9 at Fullerton's Marsh on Dec. 2 (DO); Rufousrsided Towhee — 1 in Parkdale 
     
     on Oct. 23 (HL), 1 at Rustico on Nov. 30 (KL)f‘ ' .fl ”i';f.- first record at 
     
     Rocky Point feeder Nov. 2 to 8 (LD, RC); “3“-”‘?J w - l at Rustico feeder from 
     
     Oct. 18 to mid Nov. (KL); Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow - lifer at Covehead marsh 
     
     for DC in late June; Fox Sparrow - 3 at East Point and 2 at Savage Harbour on Oct. 
     
     11 (PJ); Snow Bunting - 150 at Charlottetown Airport on Oct. 31 (BD), flocks of up 
     
     to 25 flying in grain field at Hampton, 20 at Panmure Island on Nov. 28 (DO). 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
            
     
          
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
    
   
   
    
     Ray Cooke noted at our Dec. meeting that a flock of Brambling and European 
     
     Goldfinch had arrived by ship in Halifax and asked members to watch for them. VM 
     
     reported an escaped Budgerigar at his feeders at Coran Ban on Aug. 10. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Thanks to the following contributors who provided records for this listing, namely: 
     
     MA - Mark Arsenault; BB — Bill Bowerbank; CB - Calvin Brennan; JB — Jean Blanchard; 
     
     BC — Barb Currie; DC— Dwight Cargill; EC — Elwood Coakes; RC- Ray Cooke; FRC - 
     
     Rosemary Curley; JC — John Clements; AD — Archie Davis; BD - Brian Dalzell; LD — Lois 
     
     Doan; RD — Richard Davies; RLD — Randy Dibblee; SE — Suzanne Essensa; JF - Jessie 
     
     Francis; HG — Hilda Gossi; B&RH - Ben & Rosalie Hoteling; BHa — Bob Hambly; DH - 
     
     Daphne Harker; LH - Les Homans; MJ — Michelle Johnston; PJ - Paul Jones; GK — Gerry 
     
     Kennific; HL — Hilda LeClair; KL — Ken LeClair; KLo - Karen Lord; GM - Gerald 
     
     MacDonald; GMa — Gisele Martin; JDM - Dan McAskill; KM - Ken McKenna; PM - Philip 
     
    
   
   
    
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