Dragonflies for Birders, Enjoy!

Birders can look for dragonflies through their binoculars! This is a Halloween Pennant dragonfly, so aptly named, and one of my favorites. W...

Enjoying Doves at Your Feeders! How-to.

Eurasian Collared-Dove Eurasian Collared-Doves are expanding their range, look for them at your feeders Mourning Doves are common feeder bir...

Happy Fourth of July!

Northern Cardinal Great Egret Indigo Bunting Flowers from our garden Happy Fourth of July weekend. Hope you see some red, white and blue bir...

Cedar Waxwing Fun!

Cedar Waxwings in crabapple trees Cedar Waxwings in Amelanchier (shadbush) trees. The male will hop over to a female, often with a berry, as...

Butterfly Identification made easy! Learn your butterflies!

Monarch Butterfly. They lay their eggs on milkweed and their caterpillars feed on this plant. Great Spangled Frittillary on Purple Coneflowe...

Attracting Orioles, How-To

Baltimore Oriole, male Baltimore Oriole, male Baltimore Oriole, Female Baltimore Oriole, male, so enjoying the oranges at the feeder next t...

Mourning Doves, fascinating nesting facts and did you know about "pigeon milk"

Mourning Doves catching a little snooze on our garden bench which is in our veggie garden. Did you know you can tell male from female? The m...

Migration in Full Swing Now! Get up Hummer Feeders, Bird Baths, etc.

Rose-breasted Grosbeak, male Gray Catbird, at dried mealworm feeder Ruby-throated Hummingbird, male American Goldfinch, female, at bird bath...

Stokes At Biggest Week in American Birding, Magee Marsh, OH, May 16th!

Black-throated Green Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Golden-winged Warbler Nashville Warbler Magnolia Warbler Birders on boardwalk at Magee Mar...

Flyover Land in FL, Migrants heading to TX

 Cape May Warbler  Tennessee Warbler  Worm-eating Warbler  Indigo Bunting males  Blackburnian Warbler Black-billed Cuckoo, not usually seen ...