September 17th…Beginners Bird Walk at St. Peters Cemetery… Participants–Penny Jessup, Nina Kidwell, and Bruce and Sandy Kunath, Leader Steve Reed. Beautiful weather and 4 people on their 1st Stanton bird walk. The participants were interested in flowers and we spent some time “botanizing”. They found a large stand of Fringed Gentians on the trail going to the Gulf Dam. We were able to identify 21 birds
Birds seen or heard:
Gray Catbird
Tree Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Eastern Phoebe
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker (H)
Red-tailed Hawk
Common Yellowthroat
Eastern King Bird
Canada Goose
Black-capped Chickadee
Eastern Bluebird
Mourning Dove
Purple Finch
Ring-billed Gull
European Starling
Rock Pigeon
American Robin
Blue Jay
Eastern Towhee
American Crow
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
The bird of the Day was the Towhee