How to ID a Cackling Goose, it looks like a small Canada Goose!

Cackling Goose, hutchinsii subspecies All above photos, Cackling Goose, hutchinsii subspecies Cackling Geese create excitement for birders w...

How to Help Bluebirds in Winter!

We still have Eastern Bluebirds visiting us occasionally and even checking out some of their nesting boxes from this past breeding season. T...

What Bird Is This?

What bird is this you may wonder. It sure does't look like a Red-winged Blackbird. Where's the red, where's the black? This is a...

Happiness Is... If You're An Author - New Stokes Guides!

Stokes Field Guides Here is a display of our just published, The New Stokes Field Guide to Birds: Eastern and Western Region, as well as our...

Birding Contest: Mystery Bird of the Day, who is it? Guess correctly and win a new Stokes Field Guide

Today's quiz bird, can you guess who this is? Guess correctly and win The New Stokes Field Guide to Birds: Eastern Region and The New St...

One Good Tern: Common Tern in Sanibel, FL, in Winter!

Common Tern, juv./1st winter seen on Sanibel FL beach, note the dark carpal bar on the wing. Here's another view, the solid dark on the ...

Rare Wood Sandpiper in RI is in The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America!

Wood Sandpiper page from The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America . Lesser Yellowlegs, might be confused with Wood Sandpiper. Th...

Dickcissel, in SW New Hampshire!

Dickcissel, 1st yr. female landed in a shrub behind our bird feeder. Photos taken with the Canon SX 40 HS, from a distance, with superzoom, ...