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Help support our work
Watch this
great
video shot over a 4
week
period of a brood of Robins being raised
Check out this video
of a rescued baby hummingbird
CURRENT ISSUE: WINTER 2012
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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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Get reminders of upcoming meetings
and fieldtrips and more
On Earth Day 2012 - April 22 - Stanton will mail nearly 400
letters to friends or potential friends of the Club. These include
Members/Supporters whose annual memberships in the Club are
expiring this spring. The mailing will also include letters
to former members whose support has lapsed over the past two
years, and to some potential new members whose names were suggested
by friends of the Club. The financial needs of the Club are
almost entirely met by the annual support of its Members/Supporters.
There is a wide range of giving levels available , from the
basic gift of $25.00 to the Stantonian gift of $500 and above.
The Club is aware that some friends' situations prevent giving
at these levels, and that is why any contribution is accepted
for affiliation with the purposes and programs of Stanton. See
this website's section on "Membership"
for more information. If your membership is up for its annual
renewal or if it has lapsed, PLEASE JOIN the adventure.
2012 Wednesday Morning
Spring/Summer Birdwalks Announced
Something no Maine Birder should do without
A free online system to record, store, and summarize your bird
observations. eBird welcomes submission of complete checklists
from each outing, and indeed any observation of birds, and provides
tools to help you trackyour life, state, year, county, yard, or
"patch" lists and much more
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
MAINE BIRDER'S BAND
Show your support for
wildlife habitat conservation
(a program of ME IF&W)
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SBC's own Dave footer is the cover story on the new issue of
Lewiston Auburn Magazine.
If you don't already subscribe you might want to. Or you can pick
up a copy at several locations around L-A... The Book Borrow at
the Auburn Mall comes to mind.
Thorncrag and the Stanton Bird Club are featured as the cover
story in
9 Sept./Oct. 2010 issue of
Lewiston Auburn Magazine.
Visit L-A Mag's web site
and see if you can request a back issue.
And congratulations to SBC's own Dan Marquis for doing the photography
for this story.
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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 have
grown to encompass 372 acres, known as the
Thorncrag Nature Sanctuary, in
the heart of Lewiston, Maine's second largest city.
The Club also owns and manages the 401 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 8
Junior 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 help finance stewardship
programs at Thorncrag and educational programs of the Junior Naturalists,
as well as help fund 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 6:00 pm at the Auburn Public Library at the corner
of Spring and Court Streets. (Some exceptions do exist, so
please check the list) Visitors are always welcome and the
meetings are free and open to the public.
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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 |
A King was being seen at Pine Point this February.
This Varied Thrush, a bird of the west coast, was being seen
in Turner up until February 4
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