Redpolls are coming to a feeder near you!

Common Redpoll, male Common Redpoll, female, who is about to dive off the perch to go to our feeder. Common Redpolls are seen in flocks and ...

Happy Holidays From Lillian and Don Stokes

Enjoy your holidays! We wish all of our blog readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New year full of wonderful birds in 2011! Thank you so mu...

Stokes talk birding on NPR Radio's The Animal House

Lillian and Don We recently had a wonderful time being interviewed on the NPR radio show, The Animal House, WAMU, a great show about wildlif...

Hairy vs. Downy Woodpecker size comparison

Downy Woodpecker, m. (left), Hairy Woodpecker, f. (right) on Stokes Select Deluxe Suet Buffet feeder. Wow, look at the size difference. In t...

Stokes CBC 2010

One of the highlights of our Christmas Bird Count was a Pileated Woodpecker flying over our heads. Part of the excitement is, you never know...

How to Help Bluebirds in Winter

Some of you have written to us recently expressing surprise and concern that you are seeing bluebirds in northern areas in winter. Here'...

Bohemian Waxwing Beauty

Sometimes, the stars are aligned for a photographer. I went to northern NH on Sat. to try and photograph Bohemian Waxwings. Where hundreds h...