2004 BAIN BIRD COUNT: Peregrine Falcon by Dan McAskill, Ray Cooke, David Seeler, Eric Marcum, Bill Bowerbank, Gerald, Gene, & Richard MacDonald, Paul & Arlene McGuigan, Jean Watts, and Elaine Murley year’s Bain Bird Count. The participants are listed above. One team birded from 6:00 am to 5:30 pm and covered 80 km while the other team went from 2:00 am to 9:00 pm and covered some 480 kilometres. The remaining person provided observations from her home. Together, they observed and/or heard 139 species. All enjoyed the days outing and had a great time during the trip. Needless to say, the species bolded in the text marked highlights of the day with some participants obtaining their first Island records. Common Loon Pied—billed Grebe Northern Gannet Double—crested Cormorant Great Cormorant American Bittem Great Blue Heron Little Blue Heron Canada Goose Wood Duck Gadwall American Wigeon American Black Duck Mallard Blue-winged Teal Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Common Eider Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Black Scoter Common Goldeneye Common Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Dark phase Rough-legged Hawk UlD Buteo like raptor American Kestrel Merlin Peregrine Falcon Ruffed Grouse Virginia Rail Sora Black-bellied Plover Piping Plover Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Willet Spotted Sandpiper Sanderling Semi-palmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Wilson’s Snipe American Woodcock Bonaparte’s Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Iceland Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Glaucous Gull Great Black-backed Gull Caspian Tern Common Tern Black Guillemot Rock Dove Mourning Dove Great Horned Owl Barred Owl Long-eared Owl On 2 am, the first team assembled in Charlottetown and commenced the 2004 Bain Bird Count. It was warm for a change with the temperature starting at 14°C and it was quite calm. From then on, the temperature dropped and, in mid morning, the winds freshened with the winds mounting to over 20 km/hr by late afternoon. After mid-moming, the showers commenced and went intermittently for the balance of the day. Two teams and a single person provided reports for this Northern Saw-whet Owl Ruby-throath Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Three-toed Woodpecker Northern Flicker Alder Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Eastern Kingbird Blue-headed (Solitary) Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue Jay American Crow Common Raven Tree Swallow Bank Swallow Barn Swallow Black-capped Chickadee Boreal Chickadee Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Winter Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Veery Swainson‘s Thrush Hermit Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Brown Thrasher