ANIMAL AND PLANT SIGHTINGS: Compiled by J. Dan McAskill 
     
    
   
   
    
     PLANTS: Some good crops of highbush cranberries in Parkdale on Dec. 13 (JDM) and Murray Harbour in Jan. 
     
     (DO). 
     
    
   
   
    
     MAMMALS: Small greyish seal in upper marsh at Rocky Point in early Dec. was found dead and part of the skin and 
     
     flippers were cut off (LD). Several reports of flying squirrels at feeders were noted at Rocky Point, Crossroads, and 
     
     Charlottetown (LD, DO, Dmu). Skunks active at some feeders in Crossroads and Vernon River at Christmas and 
     
     in early Feb. (DO, JDM, DK). Coyote and red fox seen at Little York in Jan. (380, ED). Dark phase coyote at 
     
     New Dominion (LD). Silver fox at Clinton during fall harvest (ED). 
     
    
   
   
    
     BIRDS: Red-throated Loon - 3 at East Point on Dec. 9 (DO), 1 at East Point on Dec. 14 (DCS), 1 at Dalvay on Dec. 19 
     
     (DCS), 1 at Stanhope on Dec. 21 (DCS); Common Loon - 1 at Souris Harbour on Dec. 14 (DCS); Northern Gannet - 
     
     at East Point on Dec. 13 (VL) & 3 on Dec. 14 (DCS), l at Little Harbour on Dec. 14 (DCS); Double-crested 
     
     Cormorant - 1 at North Lake on Dec. 13 (DCS), 1 at Souris Harbour on Dec. 14 (DCS), l at Hillsborough Bridge Piers 
     
     on Dec. 29 (DO), on Dec. 30 to Jan 1 (JDM); Great Cormorant - at East Point on Dec. 13 (VL), 6 at North Lake on 
     
     Dec. 14 (DCS) 8 at North Rustico breakwater on Dec. 24 (DCS); American Bittern - l at Lord’s Pond in Tryon on Dec. 
     
     25 (ML via BH); Great Blue Heron - 1 at Brackley Marsh on Dec. 1 (J&FC, DO, DCS), 1 at Basin Head on Dec. 13 
     
     (VL) & Dec. 14 (DCS), l at South Lake on Dec. 14 (DCS), 2 at Souris River on Dec. 14 (DCS); Canada Geese - large 
     
     numbers of geese left the Malpeque area around Dec. 7'h to 9"1 with the storm (LY, JDM), 300+ at Meadowbank on Jan. 3 
     
     (DCS), the clarion call of 40 Canada geese flying to south at 8:45 am at Argyle Shore on Jan. 21 (LY); Barnacle Goose - 
     
     1 reported at Village Green and l was shot at Malpeque in the auturrm and a taxidermic mount was prepared by Danny 
     
     Clark (RCa via DCS); Gadwell - 30 at Clark’sPond on Dec. 2 (DO), 32 at Chappell Creek on Dec. 9 & 14 on Dec. 20 
     
     (DCS); American Wigeon - 1 at Clark’s Pond on Dec. 2 (DO), 1 at Cardigan bridge on Jan. 10 (DO); Eurasian 
     
     Wigeon - 1 at Stratford Lagoon on Dec. 27 - 31 (DO, DCS, EMa, JDM); American Black Duck - ~200 at Clark’s Pond 
     
     on Dec. 2 (DO), 400 on Hillsborough River on Dec. 10 (JDM), 300 at Ellen’s Creek on Dec. 13 (JDM); Mallard - ~12 at 
     
     Clark’s Pond on Dec. 2 (DO), a few at Cardigan bridge on Jan. 10 (DO), 3 males and a female at Belvedere Pond on Jan. 
     
     10 (JDM); Northern Pintail - 31 at Rustico & 6 at Cavendish on Nov. 16 (DCS), 20 at North Rustico on Dec.2 (DO), 1 
     
     at Clark’s Pond on Dec. 2 (DO), 1 at Covehead on Dec. 24 (DCS), 1 at Cardigan bridge on Jan. 10 (DO); Green-winged 
     
     Teal - 1 at Clark’s Pond on Dec. 2 (DO); Ring-necked Duck - 4 at Clark’s Pond & 5 at Lake of Shining Waters in 
     
     Cavendish on Nov. 17 (DCS) & 2 on Dec. 2 (DO); Greater Scaup - 2 at Hillsborough River at Mount Stewart on Jun. 5 
     
     & 3 on Jun. 8, 1 on Jul. 9-10, 4 on Jul. 11-15 (BP), 50+ at Clark’s Pond in Cavendish on Nov. 17 (DCS) & ~100 on Dec, 
     
     2 (DO), 50 at South Lake on Dec. 13 (DCS); Lesser Scaup - l at Clark’s Pond in Cavendish on Nov. 17 (DCS) & 2 on 
     
     Dec. 2 (DO), 1 at South Lake on Dec. 13 (DCS); Common Eider - 30 at Robinson’s Island on Dec. 24 (DCS), 10 at East 
     
     Point on Dec. 26 (DCS); Harlequin Duck - 1 at East Point on Dec. 26 (DCS), male at Cardigan bridge on Jan. 10 - 12 
     
     (DO, DCS); White-winged Scoter - 1 male at Georgetown Royalty on wharf road on Jan. 3 (SSi); Long—tailed Duck - 
     
     300 on Dec. 13 & 100+ at East Point on Dec. 26 (DCS); Bufflehead - female at Cavendish on Nov. 29 (EMa), 1 at South 
     
     Lake on Dec. 14 (DCS); Common Goldeneye - male first seen on the river on Jun. 24 & seen until Aug. 4 (BP), several 
     
     at Cardigan bridge on Jan. 10 (DO); Barrow’s Goldeneye - male at Clark’s Pond in Cavendish on Nov. 16-7 (DCS), 1 at 
     
     South Lake on Dec. 14 (DCS), 4 males & a female at Cardigan bridge on Jan. 10 (DO), at least 5 at Meadowbank on Jan. 
     
     3 (DCS); Hooded Merganser - 4 at Clark’s Pond & 3 at Lake of Shining Waters in Cavendish on Nov. 17 (DCS); 
     
     Common Merganser - numerous at Cardigan bridge on Jan. 10 (DO, DCS), many at Meadowbank on Jan. 3 (DCS), 2 
     
     drakes at Damley Bridge & 12 at Lower New Annan on Jan. 19 (SMa&DF); Red-breasted Merganser - 6 at Point Prim 
     
     on Dec. 30 (FdB), 100+ at Rice Point wharf on Jan. 4 (EMA); Bald Eagle - feeding at the Hillsborough River eagle 
     
     feeding station at Mount Stewart was suspended on Jun. 3 (BP), 17 were seen in Mount Stewart marsh on Jun. 22 during 
     
     the height of the Gaspereau run (BP), 1 at York Point on ~Nov. 7 (ASm), 14 at Robinson’s Island on Dec. 21 (DCS, 
     
     EMa), pair of adults checking out the ducks and gulls at Cardigan Bridge on Jan. 10 (DO, DCS); Northern Harrier - at 
     
     Robinson’s Island on Dec. 2 (AP), 1 on the Blue Shank Road on Dec. 6 (FdB), 1 at New Glascow & Covehead on Dec. 2 
     
     (DO), 1 to 2 at Robinson’s Island/Covehead on Dec. 21, 1 at North Rustico and l at Cymbria on Jan. 2 (DO), 1 at Nine 
     
     Mile Creek on Jan. 4 (EMA), 1 at Robinson’s Island on Jan. 5 (DK) & immature on Jan. 12 (DO), 1 at Hunter River on 
     
     Jan. 19 (FdB); Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 at Charlottetown Farmer’s Market on Nov. 29 (EMA), l at Clark’s Point on 
     
     Dec. 2 (DO), 1 made several visits at Crossroads feeders on Dec. 9 (D0), 1 at Augustine Cove on Dec. 28 (DCS), 1 at 
     
    
   
   
    
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