Trick or Treat?

Phoebe, our new puppy, is our treat! HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Photo © Lillian Stokes, 2006

Surf Scoters

Tried to post this to the blogger website, yesterday, where our blog is hosted, but I couldn't get through. Seems to be working today. R...

How Big?

How big is Phoebe, our new puppy? This big. About as big as a medium size pumpkin. She is 12 weeks old today. It is so amazing to have such ...

Audubon Society of Rhode Island

We just gave a talk at the Audubon Society of Rhode Island's annual meeting. What a nice bunch of folks they are, and working so hard to...

Ruby-crowned Kinglet & Phoebe

Yesterday we saw a lovely little Ruby-crowned Kinglet flitting through the fall foliage. These little birds give new meaning to the word ...

Welcome Phoebe! Happiness is a Warm Puppy

Remember when we said back here , after our beloved Corgi, Daisy, died, that we saw a sign that read "When one door of happiness closes...

White-throated Sparrow

This morning, this White-throated Sparrow was in the willow shrub next to our feeders, its white throat gleaming, even though the rest of it...

Common Yellowthroat

I needed a photo for our blog, so I went out to photograph some Palm Warblers I saw by our woodland edge. By the time I had gotten there, th...

Fall Canoe Ride

We are at peak foliage color here at our home, "Bobolink Farm", in southern NH. The mountain that we look at is ablaze with vivid ...

Birding Cape May, NJ, continued

Osprey Sharp-shinned Hawk pursuing a... Palm Warbler in flight Don and Michael O'Brien at Higbee Beach Higbee Beach "morning flight...

Birding Cape May, NJ

Cape May Lighthouse Overlooking "Cape May Meadows" Merlin at Sunset Photographing the Merlin We are down in Cape May, NJ, one of t...

Western Reef-Heron last reported 9/20/06

This Western Reef-Heron that has been thrilling U.S. birders since its first appearance in Kittery Point, ME on 8/18/06 seems to have left. ...

Leaf Peepers in the White Mountains, NH

Mt. Lafayette on left Sugar Maple leaf Indian Head Across a pond Mt. Washington and cog railway trains Yesterday we went "leaf peeping...