More Photo Tips Through The Window

I was asked in yesterday's comments, for more tips for photographing birds through the window. Many of these apply to photographing bird...

Through My Window

Right outside my office window is a bird bath and also a tray feeder. They're a wonderful distraction from work (sometimes too much dist...

Barn Swallow At Work

The Barn Swallows at Crane Creek that were collecting mud were using it in their nest construction. It's always amazing to watch how the...

And another

And here's another shot of a Barn Swallow carrying nesting material, that I took from the same place. Photo © Lillian Stokes, 2007

Barn Swallow

While at Crane Creek/Magee Marsh recently, I found Barn Swallows nesting at the visitor's center at Crane Creek. They're one of the ...

Baltimore Oriole

And right after I posted the photos yesterday, a male Baltimore Oriole came to the tray feeder and started eating the orange. Yeah! We do no...

Recent Visitors

Recent Visitors to our feeders were a pair of migrating Evening Grosbeaks (male left, female right), chowing down on sunflower seeds and, ju...

"Blue" Bird

Here at home in NH, we have been getting good looks at migrant birds who are being held back by our cold rainy weather. Yesterday, this love...

People, Magee Marsh/ Ottawa NWR

One of the fun things about birding, in addition to all the beautiful birds you see, is meeting other birders and sharing the birding experi...

Magee Marsh/Crane Creek Warblers

Here are more of my photos from our recent trip to the Magee Marsh/Crane Creek warbler hotspot. One of the most abundant warblers we saw the...

Mad Warbler

This photo I took of a Chestnut-sided Warbler on our recent trip so reminds me of the famous photo of the Mad Bluebird , only this one is th...

Warbler Trip

Cerulean Warbler, female Magnolia Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Ovenbird Ovenbird, top view We had a wonderful time at our trip to Crane Cr...

Warbler Mania

Blackburnian Warbler As we said, we're going to Crane Creek/Magee Marsh warbler birding hotspot for the next several days. Located on t...

White-crowned Sparrow

This beautiful White-crowned Sparrow popped up on our deck yesterday, just for a second. What a treat. We don't see many of these here. ...

In the Driver's Seat

The photo above is of a House Wren who nested in our friend's weathervane. He made the weathervane shaped like a tractor and installed i...

Black-throated Green Warbler

This morning as we were sitting on the deck drinking our morning coffee we heard... "zee-zee-zee-zoo-zee", a Black-throated Green ...

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Today we had the first Rose-breasted Grosbeak male arrive, what a thrill! This is a bird that wows people and we often get lots of emails fr...

Hooded Merganser Nest

Female Hooded Merganser in nest box Leaving the box to go feed Remember back in April , we saw a pair of Hooded Mergansers flying together a...

Osprey Migration

Ospreys are migrating north, up our pond (which is a dammed up part of a river). Ospreys follow rivers and water bodies on migration because...