good numbers of sightings this year (JDM, HJ); Gray Partridge - 20 on 
     
     Aug. 23 at St. Catherines (EC), 20 at Toronto Road in Nov. (FC); 
     
     American Coot - 1 at Indian River on Oct. 29 (LH), 1 at Long Pond on Oct. 
     
     30 (CS); Golden Plover - 24 to 120 between Aug. 7 and Oct. 5 (LH); 
     
     lhimbrel - 250+ at Sea Cow Pond on Aug. 6 (LH); stilt Sandpiper - 1 at 
     
     Cavendish Farms on Sept. 7 (LH); Western Sandpiper - 1 at Belmont Park 
     
     on Jul. 30 and 1 at Cabot Park on Aug. 27 (LH); Wilson’s Phalarope - 3 
     
     at Georgetown about Oct. 3 (JP via JW); UID Jaeger - Oct. 15 at East 
     
     Point (JDM, RC,RP, LT); Black-headed Gull - 1 at Cape Egmont in October 
     
     (HA), 1 at Belvedere Pond on Nov. 7 (RC); Bonaparte’s Gull - about 6 in 
     
     winter plumage skimming and dipping into the sea at Savage Harbour on 
     
    
   
   
    
     Oct. 24 (RS), 1 at Brackley Marsh on Dec. 8 (MR); Caspian Tern - 3 at 
     
     Malpeque in Nov. (DB) with Arctic Terns; Black Tern - 1 at Malpeque in 
     
     $09» (DB); Mourning Dove — 40 in East Royalty daily in early Nov. 
     
    
   
   
    
     (C&MW), 40 at Summerside on Dec. 6 (SE), 
     
     7 and 13 (BB); Great-horned Owl — 
     
     pistol at Mooney’s Pond (RR,TD); 
     
     30 (MR); Snowy Owl - 1 in Pictou Island area on Nov. 
     
     Bridge on Morell River (MH); Gray Jay - 1 all summer at Monticello (GM), 
     
     2 at Grand Tracadie on Oct. 10 (MR), 2 at Monticello on Oct. 28 (GM), 1 
     
     at Dromore on Nov. 13 (JDM, BB, LY); Red-breasted Nuthatch - the forests 
     
     have been alive this autumn with very large numbers of these nuthatches, 
     
     sometimes 6 or more in a single tree (JDM, RC, DW, LH), 1 at Battery 
     
     Point feeder taking sunflower seed on Oct. 26 (WP); Bohemian Waxwing - 
     
     groups of 80 at Stanhope and Cabot Park on Nov. 29 (BlM), this fall in 
     
     Summerside area (LH), 60 to 75 in Sherwood on Dec. 7 (BB), 200 feeding on 
     
     ground and in bushes in Sherwood in early Dec. (BHa); Cedar Waxwing - 
     
     eating berries in Charlottetown Jul. to Sept. (EC); Northern Shrike - 1 
     
     attacking birds at Argyle Shore feeder (BC), 1 at Tracadie Harbour on 
     
     Dec. 18 (JDM, BB); Pine Warbler - 1 at Indian River Reserve on Sept. 6 
     
     (LH); Palm Warbler - 2 at Cavendish on Oct. 7 & 8 (DW); Eastern 
     
     Meadowlark - 1 at Monticello on Oct. (GM), 1 at Shipyard Point on Nov. 
     
     11 (JDM, BB); Red-winged Blackbird - about 100 at Mt. Albion on Nov. 12 
     
     (JDM); Northern Oriole - 2 males in East Royalty on May 28 (EC), 1 heard 
     
    
   
   
    
     1 in Parkdale/Sherwood on Dec. 
     
     1 coming to the sound of a scare 
     
     Short-eared Owl - 1 at Dalvay on Oct. 
     
     (CS), 1 at Grant’s 
     
    
   
   
    
     in Sherwood on Jul. 1 (EC), 1 in Sherwood hedge and visiting feeder from 
     
     Dec. 7 to 13 (BHa); Common Grackle - 3 at West Point on Dec. 7 (ME via 
     
     HM), 1 at Upton feeder last winter and this winter (RRi); Northern 
     
    
   
   
    
     Cardinal - female in Charlottetown in Sept. (JD); 1 male on Oct. 20th at 
     
     feeder and both male and female on Oct. 22 the one or both seen to the 
     
     25th (EH via WP), 1 at New Annan on Oct. 27 (BM), male and female near 
     
     Hunter River about Nov. 1 (FL), 1 female at feeder in West Royalty on 
     
     Nov. 10 (DL), 2 at Rustico feeder on Nov. 14 (N&EM via EM), 1 female at 
     
     Southwest Lot 16 on Dec. 2 & 3 (MCM via VMacN), 1 female at Summerside on 
     
     Dec. 6 (SE), 1 in West Point on Dec. 7 for last 2 weeks (ME through HM), 
     
     1 in Mount Stewart Dec. 1 - 7 (BPi), l at Montague from mid-Nov. to mid- 
     
     Dec. (NP, LM via RRi); Indigo Bunting - 1 at Bayside on Apr. 30 (LB); 
     
     Dickcissel - 1 at Chan's (P&CH via BP); Evening Grosbeak - 8 or 9 at 
     
     West Point feeder on Dec. 7 (ME via EM), 110 at Upton feeder in Dec. 
     
     (RRi); House Finch - male feeding young on Aug. 20 at Bangor (JK), male 
     
     and female reported in Summerside on Dec. 6 (SE); Common Redpoll - 1 at 
     
     Cabot Park on Nov. 29 (BlM); Red Crossbill - 8 at Grand Tracadie on Nov. 
     
     8 (MR); American Tree Sparrow - 2 at Donagh feeder (JDM), 2 at Upton 
     
    
   
   
    
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