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Check out the web
cam set up on a Red-tailed Hawk nest in Philadelphia
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Check
out the new Stanton Bird Club hats & T-Shirts. All
the fashionable birders are wearing them.
VIDEOS
RealPlayer
may be required to play some of these files
Download
RealPlayer Loon
w/ Fish (7MB) (11MB)
Oriole
Video (5 MB) (9MB)
Female Oriole (4MB) (7MB)
Orioles at Jelly (3.8MB) (7MB)
GoldFinch (2.6MB) (6MB)
Goldfinch at Feeder (2.75MB) (5.3MB)
Goldfinch Chick Begging (.8MB)
White-crowned Sparrow (1.8MB) (3.4MB)
Red-winged Blackbird (1.7MB) (3.2MB)
Summer Tanager (3.5MB) (6.5MB)
Starlings (3 MB) (6MB)
Starling Bathing (1.8MB)
Red-tailed Hawk(1.8MB)
Common
Mergansers (1.8MB)
Northern Shrike (1MB)
Pileated Woodpecker (1.9MB)
Cooper's Hawk (1.6MB)
Great Cormorant (1.1MB)
Juncos
(1.9MB) (7MB)
White-throated
Sparrows (1.3MB)
Fox
Sparrow (3.4MB)
White-breasted
Nuthatch (1.8MB)
Immature
Eagle (2 MB)
2
Eagles on Nest (7.4 MB)
Peregrine Falcons (8.2
MB)
American
Redstart (1.5MB)
Red-winged
Blackbird (1.75MB)
Puffins & Razorbills
(7MB) (15MB)
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reminders of upcoming meetings and fieldtrips and
more
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NEW EDUCATIONAL GAZEBO AT THORNCRAG
As part of phase one construction
at Thorncrag, this new gazebo is has been built adjacent to the
parking lot. The new gazebo will be used for nature presentations,
as an outdoor classroom for school children, and for various SBC
functions.
Construction of the gazebo was made possible in part by generous
in-kind and material donations from several local businesses.
If you would like to contribute cash or in-kind services to
help bring any present or future SBC project to fruition, please
contact Club President Tom
Robustelli.
If you would like to make a cash contribution with your credit
card, click the link below. EVERY LITTLE BIT HELPS.
Thank You
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2009
Christmas Count results
Download
Stan DeOrsey's printable "Where to Bird in
L/A"
A comprehesive list of the best places to go birding in
Androscoggin County, complete with map, habitat and accessability keys | Help
support our work
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BIRDER'S BAND
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your support for
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of ME IF&W) |
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The
Stanton Bird Club
was founded in 1919 and named in honor of Dr. Jonathan Y. Stanton, a professor
at Bates College in Lewiston. Over the years, a number of parcels of land were
donated to the Club. These donations eventually grew to encompass 357 acres, known
as the Thorncrag Nature Sanctuary,
in the heart of Lewiston, Maine's second largest city.
The Club also owns and manages the 160 acre Woodbury Bird
Sanctuary in Monmouth. The
Club is made up of people from a wide range of ages and backgrounds, but they
all share a love of nature in general, and birds in particular. Today there are
some 300 club members, including about 8Junior
Naturalists. A Board of Directors oversees the Club's finances and
activities, both of which have grown tremendously in the last decade.
Although
almost all of the Stanton Bird Club's activities are free of charge, membership
is encouraged because dues helps finance stewardship programs at Thorncrag and
educational programs of the Junior Naturalists, as well as help fund and the Club's
two other sanctuaries. Anyone interested in membership can request
a membership brochure. |
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meetings are held on the first Monday of the month from November through May,
starting at 7:00 pm at the Auburn Public Library at the corner of Spring and Court
Streets. Visitors are always welcome and the meetings are free and open to the
public. | |
The
Stanton Bird Club offers numerous field trips throughout the year to a variety
of local hot spots in the Lewiston-Auburn area, as well as state-wide and even
to the coast of New Hampshire and  Massachusetts.
All trips are led by experienced birders.
We hope you'll
join us in the field. Be
sure to check back on the field trip page to see the results of each outing, along
with any photos from the trip!
FIELD
TRIP RESULTS ARCHIVES |
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L-A...
IT'S HAPPENING HERE |
GOOD NEWS!! The loons on the Basin hatched a chick somewhere between
Sunday and Tuesday July 3-5. These photos are by Rob Crosby when the
chick was no more the 2 days old!
May 30. This and another Peregrine Falcon are being seen on
the steeple of the Franco Center in Lewiston. They may well be raising
chicks there. Chech back later for hopeful confirmation.
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