POSTED WITH THE PERMISSION OF THE ONTBIRDS COORDINATOR Dear Ontbirders: As the academic year draws to a close, the Journey North Program (http://www.learner.org/jnorth) would like to thank all those who have reported their “first sightings” of target species to this amazing internet-based science program that supports about 700,000 students across Canada and North America who are studying and measuring and monitoring and recording the arrival of spring across North America. If you have not done so, please send to Cindy (cindy_journeynorth@comcast.net) your “FIRST” sighting details (date, location, name of observer) for: American Robin Loon Hummingbird Oriole Red-Winged Blackbird Barn Swallow You can also register with the program at the Journey North website and file reports using the forms there. And lastly, this writer AND the Journey North would appreciate your report of the first sighting of migrating Monarch Butterfly, egg and caterpillar that you see. Beginning this past weekend, there has been a number of sightings of adults and eggs in Toronto. PLEASE SEND MONARCH BUTTERFLY SIGHTINGS PRIVATELY TO THIS WRITER AND DO NOT POST THEM TO ONTBIRDS: donald_davis@yahoo.com. Thank you Donald A. Davis, U.E. Life Member Ontario Nature Friends of Presqu'ile Park Member Toronto Entomologists' Association Willow Beach Field Naturalists Board of Directors Monarch Butterfly Fund