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     OCTOBER MEETING. The first 
     
     meeting of the fall season will 
     
     be held on Tuesday, October 7 
     
     at 8:00 p.m. in Room 47 on 
     
    
   
   
    
     the third floor of the Provincial. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Health Building. Program for the 
     
     evening will be an illustrated 
     
     talk by Winnie Cairns on the 
     
     natural history of the piping 
     
     plover. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Set aside Saturday October, 
     
     11,1980 for the first outing 
     
     of the fall. The outing is 
     
     slated to occur at Moore's 
     
     wildlife Santuary, Milltown 
     
     Cross. Anyone interested is 
     
     requested to meet at 11:30 a.m. 
     
     at the Santuary. Please bring 
     
     your own lunch. This will be 
     
     an excellent opportunity to 
     
     view the various waterfowl 
     
     species common to P.E.I. 
     
    

    
     SEE YOU THERE. 
     
    
   
   
    
     MUSEUM FOR TODDLERS. A cross- 
     
     country tour of a special 
     
     museum presentation for three 
     
     to six yeal olds will soon be 
     
     arriving on P.E.I. Two 
     
     programs will be offered, one 
     
     featuring a baby shale and 
     
     the other about life in a 
     
     frog pond. Both will include 
     
     acting, singing, puppetry and 
     
     participation by the children. 
     
     The production is tentatively 
     
     scheduled to be on the Island 
     
     october 21 to October 30 with 
     
     presentations in Alberton, 
     
     Summerside, Charlottetown, 
     
     Morell, Montague and Souris. 
     
     Watch the media for more 
     
     details of time and place 
     
    

    
     of programs. 
     
    
   
   
    
     NEST RECORD CARDS DUE. Society 
     
     members who were able to observe 
     
     birds' nests during the spring 
     
     and summer should now be sub- 
     
     mitting their records to the 
     
     Maritimes Nest Records Scheme 
     
    

    
     in Sackville, New Brunswick. 
     
    

    
     Cards for reporting observations 
     
     will be available at the October 
     
     meeting or from Winnie Cairns. 
     
     Island contributions to the 
     
    

    
     Nest REcords Scheme were down 
     
     somewhat in 1979 from previous 
     
     years so let's do our best to 
     
     improve our record for 1980. 
     
     Completed cards should be for- 
     
     warded to A.D. Smith, Coordinator, 
     
     Maritime's Nest Records Scheme, 
     
     Box 1590, Sackville, New Brunswick 
     
     "BOA 3C0. 
     
    
   
   
    
     CNF TO MEET IN GUELPH. Organizers 
     
     of the 1981 Canadian Nature Fed- 
     
     eration Converence in Guelph, 
     
     Ontario are already hard at work 
     
     planning to outdo the tremendously 
     
     successful 1980 conference recently 
     
     held in Winnipeg. First of all, 
     
     the gathering has been scheduled to 
     
     coincide with the peak influx of 
     
     spring migrants which surge 
     
     through southern Ontario each May. 
     
     Birding 'hot spots', Long Point 
     
     and Point Peelee, are not far 
     
    

    
     away so there are bound to be 
     
    

    
     some exciting field trips in store. 
     
     Well known for their energy and 
     
     leadership in conservation causes, 
     
     our fellow naturalists from 
     
     southern Ontario are busy 
     
     finalizing plans for what 
     
    

    
     promises to be an exciting 
     
    

    
     schedule of speakers and events. 
     
    

    
     So circle the dates (May 8 to 10) 
     
     on your calendar and watch future 
     
     newsletters for more details.