Check out the web cam set up on a Red-tailed Hawk nest in Philadelphia

visit woodbury

meet the directors

chickadee chronicle
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field checklist of birds
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Check out the new Stanton Bird Club hats & T-Shirts.  All the fashionable birders are wearing them.

VIDEOS
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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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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

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

 

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MAINE BIRDER'S BAND

Show your support for
wildlife habitat conservation
(a program of ME IF&W)


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.


2009-2010 Schedule 

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.

2009-2010 Schedule 

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

 

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!
common loons with chick

common loons with chick

common loon with chick

 

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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