ANIMAL AND PLANT SIGHTINGS: Compiled by J. Dan McAskill 
     
    
   
   
    
     Dragonflies filled the air during a recent outing On August 10 near Howe Bay (CH). A 
     
     25 to 30 cm long smooth green snake and an 8 to 10 cm Red Eft were seen on the 
     
     Confederation Trail in Cherry Hill on August 3lst, a sunny warm day (SJ). Spring 
     
     Peepers were calling from reed lined pond near Point Prim lighthouse on May 6 (DW). 
     
    
   
   
    
     Northern Gannet - numerous along north shore on certain days in August and September 
     
     (JDM, DGS), 2 adults reported on shore preening within a few feet of children on Aug. 
     
     28 (J&GHo); Common Loon - 2 adults and 2 downy young at Deroche Pond on Aug. 15 
     
     (DG&JS); um Loon - 7 offshore at nt on Aug. 14 (JS);M- 1 
     
     at Cavendish Farm on Jun. 9 (LE); W 1 at New Annan on . , 1 at 
     
     Brander’s Pond on Sept. 29 (LB), 5 irc ' Sept. 30 (HM); White-winged 
     
     Scoter - e on Aug. 25 (J&GHo); m- 4 at Indian River on Sept. 
     
     29; fl - 6 a 9 at Brander's on on Sept. 29 (1.8); m - 
     
     repor e on pr. h at Pleasant Grove by Penny Sterling via Suza arp- 
     
     shinned Hawk - reported utilizing a chimney screen in Rice Point on Aug. 4 as return 
     
    
   
   
    
     point after flights about yard (JHa); Bald Eagle - scattered sightings throughout 
     
     the Island (FC, HG, BB, JDM, JEGHo); Northern Harrier - l hen Harrier circling low 
     
    
   
   
    
     over red pine plantation on May 9 & Ma 9 (HG); Large UID Raptor - with 3 ft 
     
     wingspan off Selkirk Road; on - 1 at East Pt on Sept. 14 (LE), 2 at 
     
    
   
   
    
     North Cape on Oct. 5 (LB); rouse — several broods of 6 birds reported at 
     
     Mt. Albion (HJ); Piping Plover - 4 at Cabot Park, including 2 immatures of almost 
     
     parent size, on Jul. 31 (LH), 6 at July 6 (3 immatures)(ADM), 1 at Savage 
     
     Harbour on Au . 18 ; flew - 1 at Blooming Point on Jul. 17 
     
     (DG&JS); - in 6 at Goose River hay field (TW via GM); Semi- 
     
     palmated S p r - 8 at South Lake on Oct. 5 standing on one leg and remaining on 
     
    
   
   
    
     one leg when waves came in around them instead of moving at the edge like they 
     
     normally do (RR); Lesser Golden Plover - 23 at Locke Shore Road on Aug. 12 (LH); 
     
     Whimbrel -20 reported in July at China Point (JH), 30 at Locke Shore Road on Jul. 24 
     
     (LR); Sanderling - 1 at Canavoy on Jul. 6 (ADM); was seen in 
     
     early August chasing gulls off shore at Greenwich (E ; n all - 1 at 
     
     Summerside Harbour on Apr. 15 (LB); Bonaparte’ - flocks of up to 40 birds at 
     
     Ellen's Creek and Hillsborough River “1014);” l at Cavendish Sandspit in 
     
     summer (RC); Caspian Terns - everyday sigh gs in mid- ug. (DGS), 2 off Savage 
     
     Harbour several days in September (JDM); Northern Saw-whet Owl - 1 calling on Sept. 
     
    
   
   
    
     28 at Clyde Rd (BM); Ruby-throated Hummingbird — lst t French Village feeder 
     
     on May Blst (HG), l at Crossr Mu); - 1 at 
     
     ' Jul G ); - l at Rocky Point 0 . 12 (LD); 
     
    
   
   
    
     1 at Rocky Point on Jun. 19 (LB); Tree Swallow — 3 at 
     
    

    
     French Village on May 3rd (HG); Barn Swallow - 8 nests in machine shed and 2 in pig 
     
     barn at Cherry Valley (JH); w - l drinking water from the wing at 
     
     Victoria by the Sea (DW); 3 - at Elliotvale on May 10 (JR), 2 at Upton on 
     
     Aug. 6 (PRC), 3 at Afton Road on Oct. 5 (JDM, RP, LT); Red-breasted Nuthatch - few 
     
     sightings or audio records on outings this autumn (JDM, RC, RP, LT); Gray Catbird — 
     
     l at Priest Pond on Oct. 5 (JDM, RP, LT); winter Wren - l at upper end of Larkin’s 
     
     Pond on several occasions in July (GM); Cedar Waxwing - 2 in Desable in late Aug. 
     
     (JGGHo), flocks feeding in larch in early Sept. (JDM); Yellow Warbler - l at East 
     
     Point and l at North Lake on Oct. 5 (JDM, LT, RP); Yellow-rumped Warbler - several 
     
     hundred at East Point in Sept. (CS); Bobolink - 1 at Mt. Buchanan on Jun. 1 (DW); 
     
     Bullock's Oriole - in woods at French Village on Jun. 7 (HG); Common Grackle - tried 
     
     we Tree Swallows at French Village but driven off by swallows (HG); H 
     
    

    
     1 reported on the Island on Jun. 14th radio show (DW); Evening Gros ea - 
     
     present a Point Prim feeder on Jun. 24 (DW); Pine Siskin — attending seed feeder at 
     
     Point Prim on Jun. 24 (DW), a dozen or more visited a Summerside feeder in late July 
     
     (W8), feeding on niger seed at Desable in late Aug. (J&GHo). 
     
    
   
   
    
     PLANTS: Its been a great year for Boletus mushrooms, one the size of a football with 
     
     no worms was found by C. Gallant (KC). A bed of Yellow Lady slippers was 
     
     photographed in the Naufrage River area (EM). KC reported that CP found a small 
     
     hawkweed (Eyeracum virginicum) in a blueberry field in August. 
     
    
   
   
    
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