See you in 2007

We will be travelling for the next week. Have a wonderful holiday and a great New Year! We will see you in early January 2007!

Happy Holidays

We wish all of you a very Happy Holiday! Lillian, Don and Phoebe (The photo is of our puppy Phoebe, on left, and her sister, Lyric, on right...

Black-tailed Gull

I was sorting my digital image files and came across this image of a 3rd winter Black-tailed Gull I photographed on Lake Champlain, VT, last...

Our Christmas Bird Count

Dawn at our home, Bobolink Farm We eat breakfast with one hand, search for birds with binos in the other hand At first golden light we see a...

Christmas Bird Count time

The 107th Audubon Christmas Bird Count is here. Over the next few weeks, people all across the country will search every bush and tree to c...

Hey, Hay

Nestling American Bittern Bobolink, male Northern Harrier, immature Northern Harrier, adult male Our farmer recently picked up the hay bales...

Puppy at Work

When we work at our office, our puppy, Phoebe, works too! (click on the arrow to play video) Video of Phoebe © Lillian Stokes, 2006

Call of the Wild

Yesterday we saw Common Ravens and American Crows congregating in an area out on our pond. We rounded a corner in our field to get a better ...

First Snow

American Tree Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Puppy Phoebe, our Corgi Our long border and garden Gazebo Rock walls rediscovered in snow Snow falling...

Northern Shrike

We again, had a Northern Shrike , imm. hunting on our property. This time I actually had my camera (Canon 1D Mark II, 300 mm IS lens, 1.4 te...

Phoebe & Friends

Since we are established bird and nature authors, we thought we would teach our Corgi puppy, "Phoebe" to be an animal-lover, also,...

Blogger photo upload

This morning we, and many others who use blogger, are not able to upload photos to our blogs. When you try and upload photos, blogger gives ...

Just because

I'm putting this photo of a Blackburnian Warbler on our blog today just because I was searching my digital image files, liked it so much...

Barred Owl

We had a Barred Owl hooting outside out house for the last several nights. Not only did it hoot the usual, "Who-cooks-for-you", bu...

Birding Binocular Tips

Adjust the binoculars for your individual needs When not wearing eyeglasses, turn the binocular eyecups up, when wearing eyeglasses, turn t...