Yellow-crowned Night-Heron

When other birds are going to sleep, the night herons are just waking up. Here's a immature Yellow-crowned Night-Heron leaving its dayti...

Shorebirds: Relative Size

It helps to know the size of a shorebird in order to ID it. One of the ways to judge size is to look at the shorebird in relation to other b...

Shorebird observations

We have been talking about shorebird size and shape and some of your have been practising making observations on shorebird photos. Regarding...

Size and Shape

Here are some more images to practice size and shape comparisons, both within each bird, and between birds. In making judgements about the s...

And More What Are You Seeing

The birds from yesterday were: - Eurasian Collared-Dove on top - Razonbill on bottom Here's another photo to practice on. Describe what ...

Birding Tip: What Are You Seeing?

We recently took some friends birding who were very interested in birds and wanted to learn more. One of the first things we try to teach pe...

Digiscoping Beginner Tips

For digiscoping, take your spotting scope, here it's our Stokes 15-45 x 65 mm Sandpiper Scope , focus the scope on a still bird, hold yo...

Cardinals digiscoped

Here are some Cardinal images taken at Jekyll Island, GA recently at a bird feeder. In this situation I basically following the rules for di...

Accipiter Alert

Sharp-shinned Hawk, a type of Accipiter Cedar Waxwing tight flock Flying Cedar Waxwing Cedar Waxwing We are visiting the Southeast and this ...

BirdWatch America 2008 part 2

At BirdWatch America 2008, here's Don helping a retailer understand the fine points of our Stokes Birding Series Binoculars and our Sto...

BirdWatch America 2008 part 1

We had a fun time at BirdWatch America 2008. It was our pleasure to introduce new retailers to our Stokes Birding Series of Binoculars and ...

BirdWatch America 2008

Here we (and Phoebe) are at BirdWatch America 2007 We will see you at BirdWatch America 2008 , a big trade show for retailers in the birding...

Irruptive Species, CBCs

Pine Siskin below, American goldfinch above As the results from the 108th Christmas Bird Count (held Dec.14, 07-Jan.5, 08) come in, it'...

Purple Martin

Purple Martin, male Someone recently asked us about Purple Martins in NH. Here, they are very rare, only occurring in a few places. In Flori...

Snow Buntings

A few days ago, we had 40 Snow Buntings land in our large, weedy field in front of our house. These beautiful, pale little sparrows breed i...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Happy New Year! We hope you have a wonderful 2008, and that you see and enjoy even more birds than last year! We will continue our efforts t...