On a wonderfully sunny fall morning, seven people gathered to walk
around the Packard-Littlefield Farm in Lisbon. Susan Hayward found lots
of flowering plants and seeds to describe, I am sure we all learned
something new, if we can only remember some of it.

As for the birds, they were "light" but we still have a few good
sightings, including three hawks. We were disappointed in sparrows as
two years ago nearly to the day we had White-crowns everywhere and a
wide assortment of sparrows, but not today, only the Song Sparrow was
found.

Stan DeOrsey

Here is the full list of birds seen:
Canada Goose - 9 on a grassy field nearly the entire time we were there
Wild Turkeys - 9
Northern Harrier - 1
Coopers Hawk - 1
Red-tailed Hawk - 1
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Blue Jay
American Crow - 100s flying in a very long line
Common Raven - 1
Black-capped Chickadee
White-breasted Nuthatch
European Starling
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Song Sparrow - 4+
American Goldfinch - 16+

Botany List : Susan Hayward

This was a time of composites! Most of what we saw were in the composite
family of plants – complex plants with multiple parts that need a long
growing season to mature and set seed.

Even before we left the parking area, the plant in bloom, 1” high and
forming a creeping mat throughout was Low Cudweed – a composite.

From there we saw the following. As a point of interest I have labeled
those plants which are non-native (but not necessarily invasive) with an
asterisk. These are not in taxonomic order.

Clovers (Red, White, Rabbits foot, Hop, and Sweet White) *
Heal-all or Self-heal (a mint) *
Asters
(New England, New York, Small White, Panicled, Calico, Large-leaved, Stiff)

Goldenrods (Canada, Late, Rough-stemmed)
Queen-Anne’s Lace *
Yarrow *
Evening Primrose
Daisy Fleabane (Erigeron)
Common Dandelion *
Fall Dandelion *
Yellow Hawkweed *
Mouse-eared Hawkweed *
Common Plantain *
Common Cattail
Field Mustard *
Sunflower *
Kapok – this is a fiber from the seedpod of the cotton-silk tree of
Bermuda.