Greater Prairie-Chickens

Wordless Wednesday, Greater Prairie-Chickens

Northern Flicker just arrived!

Northern Flicker Northern Flicker, Yellow-shafted group of subspecies A Northern Flicker just showed up in our yard, a sign of spring! Welco...

The ducks are coming!

Mallard, male Hooded Mergansers, female above, male below Common Mergansers, female above, male below Ducks and geese on the Connecticut Riv...

Waiting for Spring

Here are some spring images from past years that can cheer us up as we wait for spring, which is nowhere in sight right now. More snow is pr...

Tree Swallow arrives!

We saw our first Tree Swallow yesterday at Bobolink Farm, our NH home. What a brave bird. There's still ice on the pond and about a foot...

Happy St. Patrick's Day Rainbow

The gold at the end of our rainbow, here at our 48 acre NH home, is that we have nesting Bobolinks. Thus we have named our home, Bobolink Fa...

Red-winged Blackbird Sign of Spring

Red-winged Blackbird©Lillian Stokes Aaah, the sun is shining, snow melting, and a Red-winged Blackbird is singing from the pine above our bi...

Common Redpolls

Common Redpolls swarmed our feeders today. Not enough room on the perches for them all, so they landed all over the ground in the fenced in ...

White-winged Crossbills at our feeder!

White-winged Crossbill, adult male, eating hulled sunflower seeds at our feeder White-winged Crossbills, 1st yr. male, left, adult male, rig...

Stokes in Boston Globe, Sat. March 5th

The Boston Globe will have a wonderful article Sat. March 5th in the feature section "g" about us and our new book, The Stokes Fie...