Rick Wright reviewer for the American Birding Association, known for his tough reviews, just gave our new, The Stokes Field Guide to the Bir...
So this is what it looked like here this morning. Very beautiful, but, really, snow before Halloween! Much more snow is predicted for upper ...
The Contest to win an autographed copy of our new field guide. Don picking the winner's name out of a hat.... The bird you had to indent...
Win an autographed copy of The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America! To win, identify this bird. Hint, it is not a sparrow. It i...
A few days ago we had a Hermit Thrush in our yard, eating pokeberries. This lesser-known relative of the American Robin has a beautiful song...
American Goldfinch feeding on the seeds of Purple Coneflower (Rudbeckia purpurea, yellow Rudbeckia triloba in background). Reason number 2 w...
Northern Cardinal, juv. male molting into adult plumage Soon he will look like his Daddy, here. Wow, this is one strange looking Cardinal we...
According to The Atlantic Wire "The Big Year Flops for Fox..Nobody turned up to see Steve Martin, Owen Wilson, and Jack Black's bi...
American Robin eating a crabapple Hairy Woodpecker, male, l., Black-capped Chickadee, R. at sunflower tube. Right now we are getting reports...
Prothonotary Warbler, is seen in the movie at High Island Just went to see the comedy, The Big Year movie, about a birding competition star...
We hear there is wonderful footage of Bald Eagles in the movie Opening nationwide, today. We'll let you know what we think after we see ...
White-throated Sparrows, Zonotrichia albicollis , come in two morphs. One morph has brown head stripes, as here; the other morph has black-a...
View From our Deck We had this gorgeous male Red-bellied Woodpecker visit our feeder. This is not a common woodpecker species here in southw...
The Big Year is a comic movie directed by David Frankel, releasing nationwide Oct 14th, based, roughly, on the book of the same name, The B...
Lincoln's Sparrow ( Melospiza georgiana ), note buffy cinnamon wash on breast. They can often have a breast dot, so do not confuse them ...
