The New Stokes Field Guide to Birds: Eastern and Western Region getting 5 Star Reviews!

We're already getting 5 star reviews! "Don and Lillian Stokes hit it out of the park with their new... guide" ( Thermal Birdin...

Birders: The Central Park Effect, a must see, get the DVD.

 Blackburnian Warbler and Nashville Warbler, two of the beautiful birds shown in the documentary, Birders: The Central Park Effect. Just saw...

Winter Bird-Feeding Tips, How to Keep Your Birds Happy

Goldfinches Here's Some Advice on Winter Bird Feeding Basics Brrrrrrr!  When winter temperatures plummet, furnaces are turned on, down p...

Pine Grosbeaks, plus video, Wow!

For most of yesterday we had two female Pine Grosbeaks (the males are mostly red) hanging out in our "Prairie Fire" crabapple tree...

Feeder Birds in Hurricane Sandy Video

I took this video, with my Canon SX 40 HS point-and-shoot superzoom camera,  from inside the house, through the slightly open glass slider, ...

Birds in Superstorm Sandy, what happened to them?

Magnificent Frigatebird First of all, our hearts go out to the many who suffered losses and are without power due to Hurricane Sandy, rename...

Fall Warbler ID Quiz, guess who!

Mystery Warbler 1 Mystery Warbler 2 Mystery Warbler 3 Just for fun, here is a fall warbler mystery bird quiz. Here are some warblers we saw ...

Turkey photo of the day plus funny bonus photo!

Today's Wild Turkey photo by Lillian, is on page 68 of our new The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America Yup, Gryff - I think...

Baby Wild Turkey photo

Baby Wild Turkey (called a poult) Since this is the week everyone is obsessed with turkeys, I thought I would post a different photo each da...