STOKES BIRDING BLOG

Short-tailed Hawk, dark morph, adult. We saw this one recently in Ft. Myers, FL. Lucky us! Here's a Short-tailed Hawk, light mo...

Least Bittern When you least expect it you might get a chance to see a rather hard to find bird, as we did when Don and I heard of a ...

The Swallow-tailed Kites have returned from migration here on Sanibel Island and elsewhere in Florida and we have seen them in numerous...

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

Went for a wonderful sunset cruise recently out of Tarpon Bay (nestled within Ding Darling NWR) Sanibel, FL, run by Tarpon Bay Explorers ...

Ovenbird on the ground, viewed from above, at the entrance ramp to J. N. Ding Darling National Wildlife Visitor's Center. This is suc...

As our friend said when she saw a photo of our view of palm trees at our Florida home, "you live on a different planet." As nor...

Northern Shoveler, female, photographed at Bailey Tract, Sanibel, FL. Isn't she lovely? Somehow that song plays in my mind when...

Sora, Bailey Tract, Sanibel, Florida. I had fun at this location photographing this rail and other birds yesterday with my Canon SX 50 HS...