IT’S THAT TIME 
     
    
   
   
    
     AGAIN! 
     
    
   
   
    
     Natural History Society membership renewals are always due in EARLY JANUARY. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Renewal early in the year is greatly appreciated because it saves: 
     
    
   
   
    
     (1) Telephone calls , 
     
    
   
   
    
     (2) Typewritten reminders, 
     
     (3) THE AXE, sometimes. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Yes, we must give up on the few persons who do not respond; then we 
     
     regretfully remove their names from the mailing list. 
     
    
   
   
    
     OPPORTUNISTIC 
     
     PIGEONS 
     
    
   
   
    
     by Margaret E. Mallett 
     
    
   
   
    
     This scanner while walking down Queen 
     
     Street in front of the old Moore & 
     
     McLeod store, I heard what I presumed to 
     
     be young Rock Dove conversation. I 
     
     paused on the outer edge of the sidewalk 
     
     and stood there looking upward. 
     
     Presently, from behind the rolled—up, 
     
     awning, the young Rock Dove emerged  
     
     fully feathered. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Not many days later, I noticed that 
     
     netting had been placed over the awning 
     
     to keep flue Rock Doves wt of their fine 
     
     roosting place. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Not to be outdone, the pigeons sinply 
     
     moved next door and set up housekeeping 
     
     behind the red letters of the . 
     
     Metropolitan sign. There they still 
     
     present a hazard to unwary pedestrians 
     
     who fail to read the evidence on the 
     
     sidewalk and to move over, out of range. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Last spring in Charlottetown a pair of 
     
     Mourning Doves took advantage of an 
     
     open window and built a nest between a 
     
     third storey storm window and the house 
     
     wind . The householder allowed than to 
     
     raise a family and leave. When a second 
     
     pair attempted to use the same 
     
     convenient glass house, the householder 
     
     promptly evicted them and closed the 
     
     outside window. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     IT’S FOR, THE 
     
     BIRDS 
     
    
   
   
    
     A new competition and exhibition is 
     
     coming up at Holland College - opening 
     
     April 1, 1986. It's an open carpetition 
     
     so anyone can submit a creative or 
     
     functional piece in any media. . . 
     
     Either... .-to house birds 
     
    

    
     -to depict birds 
     
    

    
     -to honour birds 
     
    

    
     -to protect birds 
     
    

    
     -to feed birds 
     
    

    
     -to bathe birds 
     
     For more information, contact Catherine 
     
     Hennessey, Curator, Holland College 
     
     School of Visual Arts Gallery. Even if 
     
     you don't submit, came out and see the 
     
     show!