to the conservation of natural areas, particularly with respect to 
     
     Prince Edward Island. Send your nomination with documentation 
     
     describing the nominee’s efforts to the Executive Director, Island 
     
     Nature Trust, P.O. Box 265, Charlottetown, P.E.I. C1A 7K3, hand 
     
     deliver to Ravenwood, or Fax to 628-6331. 
     
    

    
     Apr. 9 to 15 — National Wildlife Week with the theme wildlife- Yours to 
     
     Recover. Events will include a school poster contest (deadline for 
     
     submissions is Mar. 31). See local paper for events list. 
     
    

    
     Apr. 29 - Island Nature Trust's annual fund raising dinner at the Prince 
     
     Edward Hotel. Phone the Trust 566-9150 for tickets. 
     
    

    
     May 4 - The Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication 
     
     will hold its first national meeting in Dorset Ontario from May 4th to 
     
     7th. The planned workshops include adult education practices and 
     
     principles, a guide to the Internet, two outdoor education workshops 
     
     with the Leslie M. Frost Natural Resources Centre, activism and 
     
     environmental education, and a geographic information system water 
     
     simulation model. For information contact Grant A. Gardener, Faculty 
     
     of Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NF A1B 
     
     3X7 Fax: 709-737-3316 (adapted from EECOM Newsletter Winter, 1994). 
     
    

    
     May 9 - Annual Meeting of the Island Nature Trust at 7 p.m. at Ravenwood on 
     
     the Agriculture Research Station. 
     
    

    
     May 19 - Arbor Day. 
     
    
   
   
    
     ANIMAL AND PLANT SIGHTINGS: compiled by Dan McAskill 
     
    
   
   
    
     AMPBIBIANS: Wood Frog - 1 on Appin Road on Sept. 24 (EC) 
     
     BIRDS: Common Loons - 1 at Rocky Point on Oct. 20 (EC); Great Blue Heron 
     
     - 9 at Grand Tracadie stream on Jan. 20 during major thaw (MRO); Canada 
     
     Geese - 78 in East Royalty the first week in January (C&MW); Snow Geese — 
     
     3 at Earnscliffe Oct. 14-21 (GP); Mallard - 8 males and 2 females at 
     
     Ellen’s Creek on Sept. 24 (EC); Black Duck - 250 at Vernon Bridge on Jan. 
     
     28 (BB, JDM); Baikal Teal - 1 at Mount Stewart (BA); Eurasian widgeon - 1 
     
     at Covehead Bay lst week of Dec. (BD); Scaup app. - 1 female at Oyster Bed 
     
     Bridge on Jan. 11 (RC); Cemmon Goldeneye - 4 at Long Pond on Oct. 23 (RC); 
     
     6 in ice leads offshore at Savage Harbour, 100 plus at Georgetown Harbour, 
     
     and 75 at Vernon Bridge on Jan. 28 (JDM, BB); Oldsquaw - 27 at Georgetown 
     
     harbour on Jan. 28 (JDM, BB); Bufflehead - 1 female at Oyster Bed Bridge 
     
     on Jan. 11 (RC) ; Harlequin Duck - 1 female at Oyster Bed Bridge on Jan. 
     
     11 (RC); Common Merganser - 80 at Vernon Bridge on Jan. 28 (JDM); Red- 
     
     breasted Merganser - 7 at Lower Montague on Jan. 28 (BB, JDM); Black 
     
     vulture - 1 at St. Edwards on Oct. 21 (EP); Northern Goshawk - 1 on Jan. 2 
     
     at Mermaid (WMac), 1 at Crossroads feeder site on Jan. 24 & 2S (BH, DO); 
     
     Sharp-shinned Hawk - occasional feeder reports; Rough-legged Hawk - 1 at 
     
     Alexandria on Jan. 7 (D&AS); Bald Eagle - 1 at Emyvale on Sept. 24 (JW, 
     
     MBW), immature at Montague on Dec. 5 (LT); immature at York on Jan. 14 
     
     (SVe); Ruffed Grouse - high numbers reported across the Island in the fall 
     
     of 1994; Gray Partridge - 4 at York feeder in Jan. (SVe); Sandhill Crane - 
     
     1 at Grand River on Dec. 18 (MRi); Mourning Dove - 2 at Stratford Feeder 
     
     on Dec. 5 (CAC); 5 at Tryon Point in early Jan. (BHo); 1 at Argyle Shore in 
     
     Jan. (BC); Snowy owl - few reports this winter (MR0, JDM, BB); Northern 
     
     Flicker - 1 on lawn in Stratford at Dec. 5 (CAC); 1 in Vernon on Jan. 18 
     
     (JH); 2 at Stanhope in Jan. (FC); Pileated Woodpecker - 1 at Lewis 
     
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