MODOs trying out for Ice Skating with the Stars

Mourning Doves practicing their ice-skating act. You gotta love 'em.

New Review, The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America

Solitary Sandpiper, subspp. solitaria, adult summer, by Lillian Stokes Great Egret, photo by Lillian, both photos from The Stokes Field Guid...

Happy Thanksgiving

HAPPY THANKSGIVING From Lillian and Don

Hooded Mergansers

Hooded Merganser, male 'Tis the time of year when ducks are migrating. We had 34 Hooded Mergansers on our pond here in NH this morning. ...

Eurasian Wigeon

Eurasian Wigeon, at Dodge Pond, Rt. 1, Hampton Falls, NH, I photographed from very far away. This is an Old World species that regularly sho...

Stokes on NPR Scott Simon Saturday Weekend Edition radio show

Don, Lillian and Scott Simon. We had a great time taking him birding. We went to Huntley Meadows Park, Alexandria, VA where we saw Tufted Ti...

Townsend's Warbler

Yesterday we went to see the Townsend's Warbler near Walpole, NH. It has been hanging out for over a week in a weedy edge near farm fiel...

Stokes at Wild Birds Unlimited, Saratoga Springs

Lois, Lillian, Don and Nancy at the Wild Birds Unlimited store, Saratoga Springs, NY Hi All, We just got back from a highly successful book-...

Book Signing Harris Center and more

The most fun part of being an author is signing your book and meeting great people. It is sooo much better to have written a book than to be...

Stokes Book Signing Wild Birds Unlimited Saratoga Springs, NY, Sun. Nov. 14th 1-4 PM

Downy Woodpecker male. Can you tell Downy from Hairy Woodpecker*? The new Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America will tell you how...

Stokes Book Signing in MA, tomorrow, 1:30PM, MA Audubon Society Joppa Flats, Newburyport, MA

Hi All, We are doing a talk and book signing tomorrow, Nov. 6th, Sat., 1:30 pm at Mass. Audubon Society, Joppa Flats Center, Newburyport, M...

Stokes Book Signing Tomorrow, 7pm at Wells Reserve, Wells, Maine

Atlantic Puffins are popular birds that can be seen in Maine Hello Maine, Tomorrow, Wed. Nov. 3rd, we will be doing a talk and book signing ...

Cape May Historic Bird Flight

Yellow-rumped Warbler We just got back from Cape May, NJ, where we did a book signing for our all new, The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds o...