RESULTS of the "Leader's Choice" trip of the Stanton Bird Club to the Papermill and Ricker Farm trails in Lisbon on Saturday, May 22, 2010, 7 am to 10:20 am. Weather was breezy out in the open with partial sun. Unofficial "bird of the day" was the Scarlet Tanager pair.

Observers: Joan DeOrsey, Michael DeOrsey, Stan DeOrsey (leader), Joline Gruz, Tom Hayward (recorder), Dan Marquis.

SPECIES seen and/or heard:

Broad-winged Hawk (pair flying overhead)
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Herring Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Chimney Swift
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Least Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher (good looks as a pair entered and left nesting hole)
Eastern Kingbird
Warbling Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Veery
American Robin
Gray Catbird
European Starling
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart (many)
Ovenbird
Common Yellowthroat
Scarlet Tanager (pair)
Chipping Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Bobolink
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Baltimore Oriole (several)
American Goldfinch

TOTALS: 6 observers, 42 species




Photos by Dan Marquis


The group, exhibiting the main cause of warbler-neck


Joan DeOrsey scans the Sabattus River for a Spotted Sandpiper


Chickadee


Great Crested Flycatcher leaving nest cavity.
The Great Crested is the only eastern flycatcher that nests in holes.


Baltimore Oriole


Robin


Red-winged Blackbird