Happy Holidays 2009

To all our blog readers, We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, filled with beautiful birds. Thanks for reading our blog this y...

Christmas Count 2009

We had a good Christmas Bird Count and amazingly, there was no snow storm here. It was however, very cold in the early morning, temp. at 9 d...

Stokes Feeder Friday: Cold Toes

White-throated Sparrow Fox Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Brrr, it's very cold here, 3 degrees this am. The birds that are coming to the seed s...

No Free Cookies

Abby (on left), and Phoebe Time for a Corgi break. At a recent family gathering, my sister (who likes birds) said her favorite part of this ...

White-winged Dove

White-winged Dove Mourning Dove You never know what might show up. In birding, that's a good thing to frequently remind yourself of. The...

Fox Sparrow

(Click on image to see larger size) Fox Sparrow at our feeders. Kinda looks like the "mad bluebird" photo. Note the front streaks ...

Stokes Feeder Friday, Hawks at feeders!

Sharp-shinned Hawk, juvenile. A Sharp-shinned Hawk just flew by the feeder, diving at the birds. Don wrote this Haiku poem about it. A Sharp...