September and for the first few days of October. Rain and wind the 
     
     following weekend causes many of the red maple leaves to cascade to 
     
     the ground. In Donagh and Bear River, the eastern larch turned to 
     
     golden during the week of October 18th. (JDM) 
     
    
   
   
    
     Insects: LD reported sphinx moth feeding on Nicotiana flowers at 
     
     Rocky Point on Sept. 27 at 11 p.m.. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Old Reports: B&EH reported Wood Ducks on a pond on the Tryon 
     
     watershed last year. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Birds: Red-throated Loon - 3 at East Point on Aug. 7 (RC), 30 off 
     
     Cousin’s Shore on Nov. 1 (N&SB); Pied-billed Grebe - 3 at John 
     
     Archie's Pond (Stanhope) on Aug. 31 (RC), 3 adults and 1 immature 
     
     at Covehead on Sept. 11 (DW); Greater Shearwater - end of August 
     
     off Covehead (HA); Northern Gannet - 110 at North Cape on Aug. 29 
     
     and 80 at East point on Aug. 30 (RC); Great Cormorant - 6 at North 
     
     Cape on Aug. 29 + 100 Double-crested Cormorant (RC); Egret - 1 
     
     large white egret reported at Hermitage in a creek from Nov. 6th to 
     
     9th (HH); Canada Geese - 800 + seen in Donagh on Oct. 3 (JDM), 30 
     
     in West River on Nov. 1 (A&MW); 1 with white extending down the 
     
     neck from the throat patch at Spring Valley (CC); White-fronted 
     
     Goose - 1 at Spring Valley on Nov. 16 (CC); Snow Geese - 1 at 
     
     P.E.I. National Park on Oct. 8; Green-winged Teal (American) - 80+ 
     
     over fields at Cousin’s Shore on Sept. 12 (N&SB); Wood Ducks - 1 
     
     at Milburn on Aug. 30 (RC), 1 male at Cavendish Lagoon on Oct. 30 
     
     (GM,SE); Redhead - 3 drakes at Long Pond on Nov. 14 (BH,DJ) & 
     
     Nov. 16 (BH); Lesser Scaup - <300 at Cavendish on Oct. 30 (GM,SE); 
     
     Common Goldeneye - <50 at Indian River on Oct. 30 (GM,SE); White- 
     
     winged Scoter - 50 at East Point on Aug. 7, 2 at North Cape on Aug. 
     
     29, 6 at Cable Head on Aug. 30 (RC); Surf Scoter - at East Point 
     
     on Aug. 31 (RC); Black Scoter - 60 at East Point on Aug. 7, 2 at 
     
     North Cape on Aug. 29, at East Point on Aug. 31 (RC); Hooded 
     
     Merganser - 5 mlaes on Oct. 30 at Cavendish (GM, SE), 2 males and 
     
     1 female at Long Pond on Nov. 15 (BH,DJ); Black Vulture - the one 
     
     being hand fed at East Point disappeared about Oct. 6th (HH), 1 
     
     seen at Souris Harbour on Oct. 24 (GM); Northern Goshawk - 1 at 
     
     North Cape on Aug. 29 (RC); Red-tailed Hawk - 1 at Westmoreland on 
     
     Nov. 16 (JDM,BB,LY); Rough-legged Hawk - 1 at Point Prim on Aug 29 
     
     (DW), 1 at Crapaud on Nov. 16 (JDM,BB,LY); Bald Eagle - nest on 
     
     the upper Naufrage moved to west side of the river because the 
     
     poplar it was nesting in broke off (GM), immature eating Canada 
     
     Goose carcass at water's edge at Cousin’s Shore on Oct. 3 & 4 
     
     (N&SB), 3 adults seen at Donagh on Oct 3 (BB, JDM), 1 at 
     
     Breadalbane on. Nov. 15 (JDM,BB,LY); Northern. Harrier — at 
     
     Brackley Beach, East Point, and Covehead Harbour Aug 28 - 30 (RC); 
     
     Merlin - chasing plover at Covehead Harbour (DW); Ruffed Grouse — 
     
     numerous near Tyne Valley on Oct. 9 (JDM); Sharp-tailed Grouse - 
     
     1 at Monticello about Oct. 22 (GM); Gray Partridge - 12 at Spring 
     
     Valley from Mid-October to Mid-November and 8 on Nov. 16 (LY); 
     
     Bhorehirds - numerous small and medium sized birds at Covehead 
     
     Harbour on Sept. 11 (DW); Whimbrel - 37 at East Point on Aug. 30 
     
    
   
   
    
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