a low slacking sound. It later died; Rita Offer found 2 at sherbrooke and 1 
     
     died while the other was in poor condition; Garth Willis of St. Eleanors found 
     
     1 but it died the next day; 1 found by Colleen Wedge on the Tyne Valley Road 
     
     ate some hamburger when offered; Candy Gallant of Summerside fed one salt 
     
     water fish food; Doris Stevens found one in Northport and June Hamill brought 
     
     her another (these both died before they could be released); 1 found in 
     
     Clinton lasted 2 days; 1 feund in a cattle trough while cattle fed from the 
     
     trough was released at Hillsborough River Bridge on Feb. 3 (Floyd Jay & Wade 
     
     MacKinnon); 1 found at Freeland and fed crab meat; 1 found by Jackie Biggar in 
     
     Tyne Valley was released the evening of Feb. 2; 1 found on Tyne Valley road 
     
     was fed hamburger and was still alive Feb. 3; _ ‘ ' 
     
    

    
     d) On Feb. 3rd: 1 appeared at.a Sleepy Hollow feeder, ate suet and 
     
     sunflower seed shells and flew away but 1 was seen in the adjacent woods the 
     
     next day (Billy Matthews); 1 was seen at Borden (Scott Makepeace); 1 arrived 
     
     at the Sherwood Motel and later died (Joan Macxinnon); 1 was seen at Birch 
     
     Hill (Doris & Allan MacKendrick); 1 was found in a yard in Bonshaw by Peter 
     
     Miller, it died 2 days later; the Fish and Wildlife received calls on 2 in 
     
    

    
     , Covehead, 1 in York, some on North River Road, 1 at Morell Rear (Hubert 
     
     Pierlot), and 2 in Hunter River; 1 was seen in Georgetown; and l was seen in 
     
     Hazelbrook (Meg Mesenger); 
     
    

    
     d) On Feb. 4th: 1 was observed by Morley Pinsent at South Granville at 
     
     10:25 a.m.; Bernadette MacDonald saw 1 in Charlottetown; Micheal Ellis 
     
     observed one at West Point; Fred Connolly observed 1 at Stanhope; and Victor 
     
     MacLeod saw 1 on the Cardross Road; 
     
    

    
     e) On Feb. 5th: 1 Dovekie was found out of the wind under a car in " 
     
     -Cornwall- It flew about 10 feet and seemed to be hurt (Wendell Sentner); l 
     
     was seen at South Rustico but later died (Arthur Arsenault;) 1 very lively 
     
     Dovekie was found at French RiVer but it wouldn't drink water (Leona Bernard); 
     
     1 was seen on the road at Howlan (John Hicks); 2 were on the Bayview Road 
     
     between Cavendish and Stanley Bridge (Herbert Simpson); 1 was seen at Grand 
     
     Tracadie and Rod.MacKinnon tried to feed it but it flew away; Helen MacPhail 
     
     saw 1 at Clyde River; Paula Foley saw another at North Cape; and John 
     
     Stockton viewed one at Gladstone; Leona Bernard found 1 at French River; John 
     
     Hicks found another at Howlan; ' 
     
    

    
     f) On Feb. 6th: Mrs. Floyd MacKinnon and her husband found a Dovekie on the 
     
     side of the road at Belmont; and 
     
    

    
     g) . 1 was seen at Bedeque by Valerie Curtis and Kevin MacKinnon saw another 
     
     at Wilmot - no date; ' . v . 
     
    

    
     h) Stan Vass reported 6 to 8 at Hillsborough River Bridge preceding the‘ 
     
     storm and 15 on Jan. 31. ‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     .References: 
     
    
   
   
    
     Arthur Cleveland Bent. 1986. Life Histories of North American Qulls and Terns. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Dover Publications Inc. ’ . 
     
     Robie W. Tufts. 1986. The Birds of Nova Scotia. Nimbus Publishing Ltd. and 
     
     Nova Scotia Museum. ' 
     
    
   
   
    
     OBEDIENT c12ch - - by Dan McAskill 
     
    
   
   
    
     One never knows what one will see in the wilds of Charlottetown. At 
     
     dusk on November 8th I left the Bird's Eye Nature Store to return to my 
     
     'vehicle when the sounds of hundreds of crows passing overhead drew my 
     
     attention. Viewed between the two walls of stone, the sky seemed filled with 
     
     crows, all obediently following the one way arrows on Kent Street though a wee 
     
     bit above street level. Now I've been told some real tall stories about how 
     
     .smart crows are, but ... really?