Happy Holidays 2009

To all our blog readers, We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, filled with beautiful birds. Thanks for reading our blog this y...

Christmas Count 2009

We had a good Christmas Bird Count and amazingly, there was no snow storm here. It was however, very cold in the early morning, temp. at 9 d...

Stokes Feeder Friday: Cold Toes

White-throated Sparrow Fox Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Brrr, it's very cold here, 3 degrees this am. The birds that are coming to the seed s...

No Free Cookies

Abby (on left), and Phoebe Time for a Corgi break. At a recent family gathering, my sister (who likes birds) said her favorite part of this ...

White-winged Dove

White-winged Dove Mourning Dove You never know what might show up. In birding, that's a good thing to frequently remind yourself of. The...

Fox Sparrow

(Click on image to see larger size) Fox Sparrow at our feeders. Kinda looks like the "mad bluebird" photo. Note the front streaks ...

Stokes Feeder Friday, Hawks at feeders!

Sharp-shinned Hawk, juvenile. A Sharp-shinned Hawk just flew by the feeder, diving at the birds. Don wrote this Haiku poem about it. A Sharp...

Snow Storm here

We're in the middle of a big snow storm now. Went out with the Corgis, who like the snow and walked them around to tire them out. An exe...

Bird Rarities

There's been a Common Shelduck spotted in MA by Jim Malone, and announced on massbird. This is a Eurasian species that can be in captiv...

Bluebird, time to migrate

This morning we had a lone Eastern Bluebird fly over our field, as an adult Bald Eagle looked out from its perch across our lake. We had the...

Stokes Feeder Friday, Woodpeckers!

Downy Woodpecker, male at suet. Hairy Woodpecker, female at hulled sunflower. Woodpeckers are great feeder birds because they're easy to...

Raven

Raven Haiku (a type of poem) Low gutteral call Of the Raven flying high To distant mountains. Photo of Raven by Lillian Stokes, Haiku by Don...

Thinking

Thinking about what new birds will show up at the feeders this winter. Perhaps some Evening Grosbeaks, like this male? Gotta love the dramat...

Orange-crowned Warbler

Orange-crowned Warbler, photographed in GA in winter. Same Orange-crowned Warbler, photographed in Ohio in May Warblers are usually the last...

Stokes Feeder Friday, Best Squirrel-Proofing

Last week on our "Feeder Friday" blog post, we were discussing squirrels and how to keep them off your bird feeders. Lots of you o...

Baby Turkey

HAPPY THANKSGIVING This is a busy time of year for all. This is turkey week, so here's a cute photo I wanted to share, of a baby Wild Tu...

Stokes Feeder Friday, Squirrels!

Squirrels!!! We had to bring it up. Actually, when you start to talk to people about bird-feeding, as we frequently do, the first topic they...

Snow and Bubbles

Snow Bunting We'll be busy for a few days. Here's some things to look at while we're busy. Snow buntings are migrating now. We h...

Western Kingbird in NH

Western Kingbird, photographed in FL Note the white edge to the tail. Shadow is on bill. In flight shows the white edges to the outermost ta...

Stokes Feeder Friday, Where Are The Birds, Cont.'d

Dark-eyed Junco On our Stokes Feeder Friday, we devote the blog to talking about what's happening at bird feeders and what questions are...

Cackling Geese subspecies in the East

Cackling Goose, hutchinsii subspecies We have been talking about Cackling Geese showing up in the East, see my other blog post here . These ...