LEWISTON — The Stanton Bird Club of Lewiston and Auburn has three events planned in July. The Stanton Bird Walks visit a variety of diverse local habitats. On Saturday July 29, the club will hold a walk at Thorncrag.
The first trip of the month on Wednesday, July 12, will be a walk on the Androscoggin River Trail in Lisbon looking for breeding birds. This is the newest section of the paved trail, which continues the more well-known and older Papermill Trail farther south. It crosses underneath Route 196 and travels along the Androscoggin River.
The next trip will be on Wednesday, July 26, at Jillson’s Farm in Sabattus when walkers will look for resident summer birds.
The Wednesday Bird Walks are held every other Wednesday from spring into the late fall. This month both of the trips will begin at 8 a.m. and end at 11 a.m. The meeting place for both trips will be the Promenade Mall parking lot, near Staples, 855 Lisbon St. Both trips include carpooling from the meeting place. The leaders will identify and comment on birds seen and heard, with everyone pointing out birds that they notice. The leaders are Stan and Joan DeOrsey.
FMI: 207-406-4741 or e-mail jsmd@att.net.
In the last trip on Saturday, July 29, at Thorncrag Nature Sanctuary, Maine Master Naturalist Alan Seamans will lead a “Mushrooms for Beginners” walk in search of mid-summer mushrooms. Maine is home to a variety of edible, toxic and interesting mushrooms. The walk will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. and will begin in the Thorncrag parking lot off Montello Avenue.
FMI: Seamans, 207-240-1723.
All of the field trips are free and open to everyone, from beginning naturalist to advanced birder. Bring binoculars and dress for the weather.
FMI: www.StantonBirdClub.org. The club also has a Facebook page.
A male Northern Parula is regularly found in wooded areas throughout Maine, often high in the trees. This is a member of the Wood-Warbler family. This small bird, about the size of a Chickadee, migrates across the Gulf of Mexico to and from the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico and then further south. Photo by Dan Marquis.
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