Warbler Migration

Black-throated Green Warbler Pine Warbler Nashville Warbler Common Yellowthroat Yellow-rumped Warbler This weekend is a good time to get out...

Northern Flicker

While standing on our dock, I saw this Northern Flicker flying across the lake. Even though it was not close, I raised the camera to my eye ...

Ivory-billed Woodpecker in Florida Panhandle

An international team of researchers from the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada and Auburn University, Alabama, have announced they h...

Seedy Story

The American Goldfinches are loving the seeds in our garden. Here's a male eating the seeds of Purple Coneflower. We notice he looks a l...

Moose Haiku

Drinking our coffee A dew-clad Moose walks by us His mind on the wild Really, we were just sitting on our deck in the morning, drinking coff...

Freedom: Broad-winged Hawk

The hawkwatch event on Sunday at New Hampshire Audubon's Pack Monadnock Raptor Migration Observatory attracted quite a number of folks,...

...and More Hawkwatching

Several migrating Broad-winged Hawks rising on a thermal. Hawkwatchers searching the sky for hawks. A dad points out the hawks to his daught...

Merlin: The Chocolate Falcon

We continued hawkwatching on Tuesday and even though there were fewer hawks than our record-breaking day , we had some fun birds. This Merli...

Record-breaking Hawkwatch Day

Pack Monandnock Raptor Migration Observatory hawkwatch site. A "kettle" (group) of Broad-winged Hawks rising on a thermal. Some we...

Gone Hawkwatching

We are going hawkwatching today and any day this week that seems promising. So we will get to the blog when we can. Yesterday we watched fr...

Monarch Butterfly Migration

Monarch Butterflies are migrating big-time through our property right now. It makes us so glad that our garden is planted with loads of but...

Western Reef-Heron continues

The Western Reef-Heron , the rare bird that has only been seen 3 times before in North America (once before in the U.S.), is continuing in N...

Sunflowers for Birds

We love the tall sunflowers that are blooming now in our garden. Some we have planted and some, including the ones in these photos, have po...

Great Spangled Fritillary Butterfly

Our butterfly bushes ( Buddleia davidii ) are in full bloom right now in our garden and they're magnets for the butterflies. Here's ...