ENVIRONMENTAL CALENDAR: 
     
     Note: All Society presentations and field trips are open to the public. 
     
     YN = young naturalists encouraged to attend or participate 
     
    
   
   
    
     Mar. 28 — The Island Nature Trust’s Annual Fund Raising Dinner and Auction will be held at the Delta Hotel 
     
     in Charlottetown. Tickets will go sale in January. You can order tickets or obtain information at 892- 
     
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     Apr. 1 - Jesse Francis will be the Society’s guest speaker with a show on “The Path of our Forefathers”, the 
     
     new nature and culture trail at Lennox Island. The meeting starts at 7:30 PM at the Farm Centre on 
     
     University Avenue in Charlottetown. YN 
     
    

    
     Apr. 6 to 12 - National Wildlife Week in Canada with the theme “Native Species, Nature’s Choice” 
     
    

    
     Apr. 12 - Natural History Society bird outing to East Point with host Dan Kennedy. Meet at East Point 
     
     Lighthouse parking lot at 9 am. Please pre-register with Dan at 651-2926. 
     
    

    
     Apr. 19 - Natural History Society Owl Hoot commencing at 7:30. Meet at Dan Kennedy’s in Vernon River 
     
     Civic address # 633 on Route 212. Please pre-register with Dan at 651-2926. 
     
    

    
     Apr. 22 - Earth Day, a day set aside worldwide to take positive action for the world’s environment. 
     
    

    
     May 2-3 - Provincial Forest ENVIROTHON for senior high school students (High School Students should 
     
     ask their science teacher or visit the web site http://www.gov.peca/af/agweb/indexphp3 
     
    

    
     May 4 - 10 - National Forestry Week for Canada with this year’s theme “Source of Life”. 
     
    

    
     May 6 ~ “Identifying and Finding Warblers” is the topic for Society’s March meeting will be Eric Marcum and 
     
     Dwaine Oakley. The meeting starts at 7:30 PM at the Farm Centre on University Avenue in 
     
     Charlottetown. 
     
    

    
     May 10 - lntemational Migratory Bird Count Day. This migration monitoring program allows birders to spend 
     
     a few hours or all day in the field recording birds and then through on-line submission of the results, to 
     
     contribute to the ongoing information collection on bird migration. For more information contact 
     
     http://birds.fws.gov/imbd/ 
     
    

    
     May 12 - Natural History Society birding walk with host Eric Marcum. Meet at Victoria Park at the canteen 
     
     by the tennis courts at 8 am. YN 
     
    

    
     May 17 - Natural History Society birding walk with hosts Ben Hoteling and Dwaine Oakley. Meet in 
     
     Cavendish at the camp ground parking lot at 8 am sharp for a birding walk on the Homestead Trail. 
     
    

    
     May 25 - A big day count to kick off the spring birding season. Assemble your team and try to beat the May 
     
     big day record of over 130 species. Call you results into David Seeler. 
     
    

    
     May 31 - Bain Bird Count. Please submit your lists of sightings to Dan McAskill (see inner cover for contact 
     
     instructions) 
     
    

    
     Jun. 3 - Anne Ferraro will speak on the Oiled Bird Recovery Program at the Society’s monthly meeting. The 
     
     meeting starts at 7:30 PM at the Farm Centre on University Avenue in Charlottetown. 
     
    

    
     Jun. 2 to 7 - National Environment Week with the theme “Illake a Difference!” 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Chimney Swift was once a fairly common bird in some 
     
    

    
     areas of Prince Edward Island. There have been very few 
     
    

    
     sightings in recent years with the most recent on record Chimney SWift E 2 
     
     being in the Murray River area. Ifyou should happen to see 
     
    

    
     its distinctive silhouette or hear of someone on the Island 
     
    

    
     who has them nesting, please call or E-mail the Society. 
     
    
   
   
    
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