4 “Ho For The Stormy Cold March Days!”

horizon. The sun is “getting power” and as it “crosses the line” and ushers in the Vernal Equinox, usually on March 215t, Spring begins. Now comes the vanguard of our summer birds, often when food is scarce. Keep feeding stations well supplied.

March Ist, .1919, Redpolls still here; winter visitors from extreme North. Also a great incursion in the winter of 1935-6.

A slight earth—tremor was felt in Charlottetown at 10.22 p.m_ on Sunday Mar. I, 1925. The station clock was stopped.

The epicentre was at the Saguenay River, and the Church at St. Hilarion, Que, collapsed.

Many deaths from pneumonia this winter—note on March Ist, 1932.

Bad weather in March, 1920. On the 7th, trains were snowed up in the West of the Island. The carfe-rry made the trip one way and did not return the same day. Thousands of birds perished through inclement weather in the USA. so that bird visitors were scarce here in 1920.

The Barometer fell just two inches, to 28.7, on March 7, 1923, the lowest reading since 1912. At 2 a.m, on the 8th the wind jumped from SE. to N.W., with a force that rocked build- ing. Nova Scotia reported wind at 72 m.p.h.

\Nild Geese going N., on March 8, 1922. On March 8, 1928, Snowbirds (Buntin-gs) still here.

A Northern Shrike, dead and much emaciated, was brought in on March 11, 1922. A seal was shot at Dunedin, March 11, 1933. It was first reported as a Polar Bear, then as a Sea— cow! (Remindiing one of “The Three Black Crows” in the old Poetry— books.) Seals were plentiful round the coast that Spring.

Much damage by “Spring freshets” 1920. Alberry Plains mill—dam, and Haydon mill-dam and bridge gave way March 13th.

Many other bridges were submerged and the unusual thickness of ice saved others.

A note on March 15, 1926, states that fir-cones are opening and scattering their seeds on the snow.

A Flying Squirrel (Glaucomys) observed “in flight” at Smelt Creek, March 16, 1927.

“Nothing freezes in the house after St. Patrick’s Day,” (March 17th) is an old saying; it may perhaps apply to the city, but certainly not to the North Shore. (House plants frozen here March 28, 1927).

Bronzed Grackles seen March 18, 1921. Cloth of Gold Crocus (C. susianus) blooms March 19, 1936—21 very .hardy bulb.