AUBURN – The Stanton Bird Club will sponsor a free presentation about Monhegan Island birds at 7:15 p.m. Monday, Nov. 5, following its annual meeting at the High Street Congregational Church, 106 Pleasant St.

“Monhegan Island, located 10 miles off the coast of Maine, is a migrant bird trap,” said birder/photographer Geoff Dennis. He began visiting the island 11 years ago to observe and photograph migrants on their northbound journey to breeding grounds.

Dennis has photographed 31 species of warblers on Monhegan, including New England’s first Virginia’s warbler. He will show images of the bird and many others, common and uncommon.

While a commercial fisherman by trade, Dennis is recognized as a skilled birder and an accomplished bird photographer. In 1995, he began photographing birds to document sightings in his Little Compton, R.I., yard.

From that point forward, his curiosity and talent grew, and today his images are used by commercial enterprises such as Droll Yankees Feeders and Aspects Feeders for both product and cover artwork.

Dennis’s work has also been used by the Nature Conservancy of Rhode Island, the Rhode Island Audubon Society and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. In the fall of 1995, he photographed Rhode Island’s first Rufous Hummingbird in his yard where he has recorded more than 160 species of birds. Dennis has given birding lectures throughout New England.

For more information on the presentation, or to attend the annual meeting and dinner starting at 6 p.m., contact Bird Club President Susan Hayward at 782-5238. For more information, visit www.stantonbirdclub.org.