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READ ABOUT THE HUMMINGBIRD LADY
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this active EagleCam from the
Norfolk Botanical Gardens |
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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 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)
| Watch
this wonderful slideshow
of a Sandhill Crane family in Florida.
(turn your sound on for music)
Wednesday
Morning Summer Bird Walks
With Stan & Joan DeOrsey
Check the
new schedule for this popular series
| Make
your plans now for the
ANNUAL DOWNEAST SPRING BIRDING FESTIVAL
May
23-26, 2008 Get all the info HERE | Help
support our work
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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 21 Junior
Naturalists and 8 Junior Stewards. 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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| Regular
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 2007 CHRISTMAS
COUNT RESULTS NOW AVAILABLE | |
JUNIOR NATURALIST PROGRAM
The
two most active outreach programs are the Thorncrag Volunteer Nature Guide Program
and the Junior Naturalist Program.
Through the Nature Guide program we offer trained guides to take groups
of all ages, mostly school groups, through Thorncrag on nature walks with any
of nine different themes that highlight the various habitats found there.
| L-A...
IT'S HAPPENING HERE | 
Check
out Jim Walker's Puffin Photos in the Photo Gallery
Winter
finches invading Maine
This
is a good winter for an invasion by the northern "winter finches"! They
are just about everywhere this year. Keep an eye on feeders for Common Repolls,
and on fruiting trees such as crabapples, for Pine Grosbeaks & Bohemian Waxwings.
(read
about them in the current issue of the Chickadee Chronicle) Photos
by Dan Marquis
Common
Redpolls, like this one, will swarm to a thistle feeder
 
Pine
Grosbeaks, like this male above, and female below, love crabapples in winter
Bohemian
Waxwing, by Jim Walker
See more Grosbeak
photos
by Peter Elias
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A Mandarin Duck spent winter '04 - '05
in Ogunquit.
See photos
& videos. | |
