We Garden, Also

Stokes entry garden, pot from lunaform.com in center Border combination includes Yarrow 'Coronation Gold', honeysuckle vine, 'Go...

Birding for Kids

We always try to let kids look through our scope at birds. We just got a nice letter from Jerry Medina, a teacher in Tucson, AZ who is encou...

Tree Sparrows, subtle beauty

American Tree Sparrow American Tree Sparrow, note the central breast dot One of the highlights at our bird feeders now are the newly arrived...

Happy Thanksgiving from Lillian and Don!

Happy Thanksgiving to you all!!! Give thanks and be grateful for all the birds! Lillian and Don Stokes

Wild Turkey in flight, photo for today

Wild Turkey in flight Wild Turkey flock Here are some turkey photos of a flock, with one flying out. They have the right idea, head for the ...

Turkey photo of the day plus funny bonus photo!

Today's Wild Turkey photo by Lillian, is on page 68 of our new The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America Yup, Gryff - I think...

Baby Wild Turkey photo

Baby Wild Turkey (called a poult) Since this is the week everyone is obsessed with turkeys, I thought I would post a different photo each da...

Winter Feeder birds, bet you didn't know these things about them!

White-winged Crossbills, a winter "irruptive" species What birds can you expect at your bird feeders in winter? Quite a few, if yo...

Tree Sparrow in flight leaving our feeder

Tree Sparrow in flight, leaving our feeder. Love it!

Western Kingbirds being seen in New England, be on the lookout!

Western Kingbird Note the white edge to the tail. In flight shows the white edges to the outermost tail feathers and dark tail contrasts wit...

Blue Jay magic

Blue Jay with seed head of "Mammoth" sunflower In my kitchen veggie garden I grow sunflowers (Mammoth variety), just so I can have...

Armchair Birding

We often see Bald Eagles on our pond, saw one yesterday, while armchair birding Armchair birding is part of a birding life. Recently we deci...

Pine Siskins have arrived in NH!

Pine Siskins are small, brown-striped finches with yellow on their wings. We just saw a few Pine Siskins in our yard. Remember last year...

A Murder of Crows, A Squabble of Seagulls, A Covert of Coots and more

A "murder" of crows (name for a collection or group of crows) A "squabble" of seagulls A "fling" of sandpipers...

Robins & Ducks

American Robin Hooded Merganser, male Common Merganser, male The snow here is finally melting, but we still have big piles in our driveway a...

It's Snowing Buntings!!

Snow Bunting in flight Snow scene here on Sunday morning after the historic New England October snowstorm Just on cue, we saw a Snow Bunting...