appeared on P.E.I. but I cannot recaii when it was not present at Vernon River. 
     
     There are many other sites where the biue Tupin is common but in more recent 
     
     years coioured forms began to appear. These are beTieved to be Russei Tupins. 
     
     They appear in a great variety of coiours and, whiTe in bioom, are most 
     
     attractive. When the bioom fades and is repiaced by seed pods, the piant is 
     
     much Tess attractive. 
     
    

    
     Let us finish this articie with purpie Toosestrife (Lythrum saiicaria). 
     
     This piant is very common in damp to wet ditches and is quite an attractive 
     
     Tate summer roadside piant. It is easiTy recognized by the Tong spikes of 
     
     purpiish blooms. 
     
    

    
     OnTy the fringes of roadside piants have been touched at this time. 
     
     Perhaps it woqu be a good idea to have a yearTy articTe on this subject. In 
     
     the meantime, I hope this has been of interest to some readers. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Editor's Note: The purpie Toose strife has escaped into many marshes where it 
     
     is dispiacing native marsh piants and some of the animaTs associated with them. 
     
     Once estabTished, it is very difficuit to controT. 
     
    
   
   
    
     PIPING PLOVER SURVEYORS NEEDED by Dan McAskiTT 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Internationai Census for the Piping PTover wiTT be in fuTT swing the 
     
     week of June lst to 8th, 1991. The Society requires the assistance of a Targe 
     
     number of voiunteers for two aspects of this survey. The first aspect is the 
     
     presurvey period (between now and June lst) when an attempt wiTi be made to 
     
     identify as many of the breeding beaches as possibTe. A person hired on an 
     
     Environment Week project wiTT assembie information from a11 the existing 
     
     surveys to date but we need the assistance of as many individuais as possibTe 
     
     to report aTT recent Piping Piover sightings to the Society so that none of the 
     
     recent breeding sites are missed. 
     
    

    
     The second phase of the project 
     
     wiTT be a coordinated survey of aTT 
     
     known breeding beaches and as many 
     
     other potentiai breeding sites on 
     
     P.E.I. as possibTe. Since beach size 
     
     varies, anyone who can offer a half 
     
     day or more of time for surveying in 
     
     the June lst to June 8th period can 
     
     be of reai assistance to this 
     
     internationai effort for the 
     
     recovery of the Piping Piover. 
     
    

    
     As it is very important that the surveys be carried out in a consistent 
     
     manner, a workshop on the survey techniques has been set up for May 15th at the 
     
     CoTes Buiiding auditorium on Richmond Street (next to the Legisiative 
     
     Assembiy). The survey and record card system is simpie but the consistency of 
     
     survey techniques wiTT make the interpretation of the data much easier for Our 
     
     compiier. Hence the need for the workshop. Where possible, the beaches wiiT be 
     
     surveyed by two person teams under temperature conditions (neither too hot nor 
     
     too con) that ensure as much as possibie that the survey wiii cause minimaT 
     
     disturbance to nesting Piping PTovers. The workshop wiTT provide a11 the 
     
     information you wiTT need to heTp us out and wiii estabTish a standby pTan if 
     
     the weather is so bad during this week that we have to use the second week of 
     
     June. 
     
    

    
     If you can assist the Society with this project pTease contact Dan 
     
     McAskiTT at 569-4351 (evenings). If you wiTT be summering in other parts of the 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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