Red-throated Loon

Sora Rail Northern Saw-whet Owl Common Loon Black-bellied Plover Ruby-throated Hummingbird Pied—billed Grebe American Golden Plover Northern Flicker Wilson’s Storrn—Petrel Semipalmated Plover Blue Jay Leach’s Storm-Petrel Killdeer American Crow Northern Gannet Greater Yellowlegs Common Raven Double-crested Cormorant Lesser Yellowlegs Horned Lark Great Cormorant Ruddy Tumstone Cliff Swallow American Bittem Red Knot 4 UID swallows Great Blue Heron Sanderling Black-capped Chickadee Canada Geese Semipalmated Sandpiper Boreal Chickadee Gadwall Least Sandpiper Red-breasted Nuthatch American Wigeon White-rumped Sandpiper Golden-crowned Kinglet American Black Duck Pectoral Sandpiper Ruby-crowned Kinglet Mallard Dunlin American Robin Blue-winged Teal Black-headed Gull European Starling Green-winged Teal Bonaparte’s Gull Cedar Waxwing Ring-necked Duck Ring-billed Gull Yellow-rumped Warbler Common Eider Herring Gull Black-throated Green Warbler Surf Scoter Iceland Gull Common Yellowthroat White-winged Scoter Great Black—backed Gull Chipping Sparrow Black Scoter Caspian Tern Savannah Sparrow Common Goldeneye Common Tern Song Sparrow Hooded Merganser UID Murre/Razorbill Swamp Sparrow Bald Eagle Black Guillemot White-throath Sparrow Northern Harrier Rock Pigeon (Dove) Dark-eyed Junco Sharp-shinned Hawk Mourning Dove Red-winged Blackbird American Kestrel Great Horned Owl Common Grackle Merlin Barred Owl American Goldfinch Virginia Rail Long-cared Owl House Sparrow

In addition to the birds seen, we also observed a skunk, two raccoons, several fox, five red squirrels and one gray

seal.

CLIFF SWALLOW MIGRATION: by Dan Kennedy

On Wednesday and Thursday of the first week of October, Vern Laux , Dwayne Oakley and I, birded from East Point to St. Peter's Harbour. We spent most of out time at East Point but also visited East Lake, North Lake, Rollo Bay, St. Peter'sHarbour (Redhead Harbour to some), and a lot of the surrounding areas.

The most startling event on Wednesday occurred very late in the afiemoon. A small group of swallows flew over us. We had seen a small number of Tree Swallows earlier and a couple of Barn Swallows but these birds were very different. They were heading inland and we were easily able to identify them as Cliff Swallows, a bird that is classified as accidental in Prince Edward Island. We were naturally delighted to have seen them. We were still congratulating ourselves on what was a lifer for two of us, when more swallows started to fly past. Every one without exception that we were able to check proved to be Cliff Swallows. We estimated a minimum of 600 birds but we were being very conservative and Ibelieve that the real number was probably double that. Early the next morning, we were back at East Point and again saw the swallows as they were trying to sort themselves out to fly back across the Strait. This was an amazing sighting for all of us.

The five Piping Plovers that we found at St Peter's Harbour were extremely late lingering birds so I hope they succeed in making it south before it gets too cold.