Redpolls are coming to a feeder near you!

Common Redpoll, male Common Redpoll, female, who is about to dive off the perch to go to our feeder. Common Redpolls are seen in flocks and ...

Happy Holidays From Lillian and Don Stokes

Enjoy your holidays! We wish all of our blog readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New year full of wonderful birds in 2011! Thank you so mu...

Stokes talk birding on NPR Radio's The Animal House

Lillian and Don We recently had a wonderful time being interviewed on the NPR radio show, The Animal House, WAMU, a great show about wildlif...

Hairy vs. Downy Woodpecker size comparison

Downy Woodpecker, m. (left), Hairy Woodpecker, f. (right) on Stokes Select Deluxe Suet Buffet feeder. Wow, look at the size difference. In t...

Stokes CBC 2010

One of the highlights of our Christmas Bird Count was a Pileated Woodpecker flying over our heads. Part of the excitement is, you never know...

How to Help Bluebirds in Winter

Some of you have written to us recently expressing surprise and concern that you are seeing bluebirds in northern areas in winter. Here'...

Bohemian Waxwing Beauty

Sometimes, the stars are aligned for a photographer. I went to northern NH on Sat. to try and photograph Bohemian Waxwings. Where hundreds h...

Review; The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America "level of detail matches or exceeds the best illustrated guides"

Black-tailed Gull, from The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America. "The thoroughness of the gull account is a major advantag...

Stokes Talk and Book Signing Thurs. 7pm Mass. Audubon Society Lincoln, MA

We will be doing a talk and book signing, Dec. 9th, Thurs. 7pm at Mass. Audubon Society , Lincoln, MA. Come learn how to fast-forward your...

Best Friends of the furry kind

Our Corgis, Abby (left) Phoebe (right) Looking out at our incredible view of the landscape we manage to attract the maximum birds, we've...

Barred Owl, "Who-Cooks-For-You"

Barred Owl This Barred Owl was recently sitting in back of a neighbor's, warming itself in the morning sun. We have seen it in our west ...

Peek Inside The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America

Our new The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America , the number 1 best-selling new bird guide, gives MORE photos and text for hard...