RESULTS of the third Saco Heath bird & botanay walk, held Saturday, June 17
It was a very warm and perfectly sunny morning. There were 26 participants, from the Stanton Bird Club, Androscoggin Land Trust, and York County Audubon, as well as at least one member from the New England Wildflower Society, and even a few visiting members from the Ralph T. Waterman Bird Club of Dutchess County, New York. (How's that for a sentence?)
Tom Hayward, of the Stanton Bird Club led the bird walk, while SBC's Susan Hayward and Mike Auger of the Andro. Land Trust handled plant identification.

A good time was had by all.


Birds seen or heard:

Broad-winged Hawk
Downy Woodpecker
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Cedar Waxwing
Black-throated Green Warbler (heard)
Pine Warbler (heard)
Prairie Warbler (heard half a dozen; saw two)
Black-and-white Warbler (heard)
Ovenbird (heard)
Common Yellowthroat
Canada Warbler (heard)
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Brown-headed Cowbird
Purple Finch
American Goldfinch

TOTAL: 24 species seen and/or heard.


Photos by Dan Marquis & Jim Walker


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Purple Finch
Purple Finch (DM)


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Pitcher Plant FlowerPitcher Plant
Pitcher Plant flower(JW) and leaf (DM)

sheep laurel
Sheep Laurel (JW)
leatherleaf
Leatherleaf (JW)

 


 

 

 

 






 

 

PLANTS SEEN

Abies balsamea
Balsam Fir
Acer rubrum
Red Maple
Acer saccharum
Sugar Maple
Aralia nudicaulis
Wild Sarsaparilla
Betula allegheniensis Paper Birch
Carex folliculate
 Sedge
Chaemadaphne calyculata Leatherleaf
Chamaecyperis thyoides
Atlantic White Cedar
Cladonia squamosa
British soldiers
Clintonia borealis
Blue-bead Lily
Comptonia peregrina Sweet Fern
Coptis trifolia
Gold Thread
Cornus canadensis Bunchberry
Cypripedium acaule
Pink Lady's Slipper
Dryopteris novaboracensis New York Fern
Epigea repens
Mayflower
Fagus grandifolia American Beech
Gaultheria procumbens Wintergreen
Gaylussacia baccata Black Huckleberry
Hammamelis virginiana Witch Hazel
Jumiperus communis Common Juniper
Kalmia angustifolia Sheep Laurel
Kalmia polifolia
Bog Laurel
Larix laricina
Tamarack
Ledum groenlandica Labrador tea
Maianthemum canadense Canada mayflower
Maianthemum trifolia Three-leaved False Solomon's Seal
Mitchella repens Partridgeberry
Nemopanthus muconata Mountain Holly
Osmunda cinnamomea Cinnamon Fern
Osmunda claytonia Interrupted Fern
Osmunda regalis
Royal Fern
Picea mariana
Black Spruce
Picea rubens
Red spruce
Pinus strobus
White Pine
Pteridiujm aquilinuim Bracken Fern
Quercus rubra
Red Oak
Sarracenia purpurea Pitcher Plant
Scirpus longii
Long's bulrush
Sphagnum cuspidatum Sphagnum moss
Trientalis borealis
Star flower
Trillim erectum
Wake Robin
Tsuga canadensis Hemlock
Uvularia sessilifolia
Wild Oats
Vaccinium angustifolium Low Bush Blueberry
Vaccinium corymbosum High Bush Blueberry
Vaccinium macrocarpon Cranberry
Viburnum cassinoides Wild Raisin
Viola mackloskeyi Northern White violet

Susan Hayward
Stanton Bird Club