About to Go

And in the middle of our garden tour this weekend, (of course!) the baby robins in a nest on the barn spot lights, decided to fledge, adding...

Stokes Garden Tour

Us with some garden visitor friends from MA. I'm holding Abby, Don is holding Phoebe. Long border with gazebo and hummingbird feeders. W...

Busy

This week we are too busy to blog, will get back to you next week. Too much work and events at our house, etc. Here's a male Evening Gro...

Down the hatch

White-breasted Nuthatches are coming to our feeders regularly now and have babies out of the nest. Makes the blood rush to my head to think ...

Bee Happy

Bumblebee with pollen on it's legs. The Bumblebees are coming to the catmint blooming in our garden. I watched in fascination and tired ...

Scarlet Beauty

Scarlet Tanager, male, way high in a tree next to our house. Whenever we hear him nearby we run and get the binoculars just to get a look at...

Overload antidote

Monarch Butterfly This morning Don and I we were talking about how in today's world we are all bombarded with so many digital things. Ce...

Bluebirds, how many mealworms can he stuff?

Our male bluebird is coming to our feeder and stuffing his bill full of mealworms to take to his 4 fledglings. So much stuffing, you won...

Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Brown Pelicans are being very affected by the oil spill. We are as heartbroken and sick about the Deepwater Horizon uncontrolled oil spill ...

Feeder Friday, Red-breasted Nuthatch

This little Red-breasted Nuthatch female (male has darker cap and redder breast) has been coming to our feeder for hulled sunflower. She als...

Purple Finch survey participants needed

Purple Finch, male Purple Finches are beautiful birds that breed in upper eastern and mid-western parts of the country, the West Coast and C...

Goldfinches, where are they

American Goldfinch, female Someone just asked us where their goldfinches were, they weren't seeing any now. Goldfinches begin breeding l...

Yellow Warbler sweeetness

Recent photo I took of a male Yellow Warbler on Bobolink Farm, our 48 acre NH property. He was singing, "sweet, sweet, sweet, I'm s...