Evening Grosbeak Party

At the Stokes Birdfeeder Restaurant, the Evening Grosbeak party of 4 has been seated. The male is the bright yellow "space cadet,"...

Tom Turkey

In our meadow in front of our house, for the past 2 days, this resplendent male Turkey has been displaying to 2 females. They seem (at least...

Morning Moose

This morning, this moose, this magic. Early this morning we were treated to large moose trotting across our meadow next to the lake. We feel...

Bird Migration

Yellow-rumped Warbler in flight Bird migration is underway now and will continue in full force, through mid-May. Millions of songbirds will ...

GO GREEN

B & B, Birding and Breakfast

This weekend, eating breakfast and birding at the same time. Times like these are our favorite moments of the day. Do you have a place on y...

Housing Market

Tree Swallow pair Eastern Bluebird, male Do you have your bird houses up and all cleaned out, ready for this year's tenants? Here's ...

100+ Ducks and more

Common Merganser, male So many birds are here now. Many migrating ducks are on our lake, raptors are migrating through, some songbirds are a...

Goldfinches Are Back!!!

Finally, the American Goldfinches have returned here to southern NH!! Three days ago Don said to me "do you want to bet when the first ...

And More Ducks

Today lots of ducks were on the lake and most of the ice has melted. We had about 60 ducks of various species including Hooded Mergansers, C...

Common Merganser, female

And here is the Common Merganser, female. She looks different than the male show in our last blog post.

Common Merganser

Common Merganser, male The ice is partially gone from the cove part of the lake we front on and ducks have moved in. Yesterday we saw 33 Com...

Friday Phoebe

Blogger Phoebe here, I'm just lying in my little bed, chewing my bone, while Lillian and Don are finishing their new book. They're ...

DO YOU HAVE GOLDFINCHES?

Everyone,  we originally posted this blog entry in 2008 when we were seeing less goldfinches. If you came to this blog post because you were...