STOKES BIRDING BLOG

By Lillian Stokes since 2006

Friday, October 31, 2025

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

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Phoebe and her mom, Chanel Eastern Red Bat Short-eared Owl Halloween Pennant Great Horned Owl
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Nature's Rhythms, Life Goes On

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They say everything has a season. Don's season ended but life goes on and I embrace nature's rhythms: Yellow-rumped warblers passing...
Friday, October 10, 2025

RIP OBITUARY Don Stokes 2/21/47 - 10/7/25

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  Don Stokes  The Raven that flew over me 10/7/25 - On a beautiful October day, after a harvest-full-moon-Great-Horned-Owls-calling night, m...
Thursday, September 25, 2025

American Avocet, Birding Parker River National Wildlife Refuge!

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Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs Great Blue Heron and Great Egret American Avocet  Had a great day co-leading a Spark Birding group at Parker R...
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Wilson's Phalarope and Migrating Shorebirds, Parker River NWR!

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Wilson's Phalarope Tree Swallows Greater Yellowlegs Osprey Semipalmated Sandpipers Beautiful day yesterday at Parker River NWR MA and th...
Thursday, August 21, 2025

Common Nighthawks Are Migrating!!

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                Common Nighthawk, male. Males have a white throat, white subterminal primary bar on wings and a white band on the tail.  Com...
Friday, August 08, 2025

Birds Drink Out of Humingbird Feeder Ant Moat!!

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 Do your yard birds do this? This  American Goldfinch drinking out of the ant moat (little well of water the ants won’t cross) on the hummin...
Tuesday, August 05, 2025

RARE HUMMINGBIRDS AT FEEDERS!

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RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD CALLIOPE HUMMINGBIRD RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD This is a great time of year, from n...
Thursday, May 22, 2025

Biggest Week in Birding May 2025

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Chestnut-sided Warbler Yellow Warbler BIG!! Just got back from being keynote speaker with coauthor Matt Young at the Biggest Week in Americ...
Friday, April 11, 2025

Swainson's Warbler, Yes!

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Fondly remembering Swainson's Warbler, a hard-to-see grail warbler, that I saw a number of times during fallout on Sanibel Island. This ...
Sunday, March 30, 2025

The Red-tailed Hawk Project unraveling mysteries of the Red-tailed Hawk

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Next time you see a Red-tailed Hawk look twice! Ponder that there are still mysteries about this common species that when solved will lead u...
Friday, March 21, 2025

WOODCOCKS ARE DISPLAYING NOW!

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  "Peent" last night heard (they are hard to see in the dark) an American Woodcock displaying to attract a mate. Woodcock males wa...
Monday, March 17, 2025

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY GREEN BIRDS

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Monk Parakeet Green-winged Teal Painted Bunting Green Heron HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY green birds. Go through your bird field guide and lo...
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Lillian Stokes is coauthor of The Stokes Guide to Finches of the United States and Canada and 35 other Stokes Guides, including the Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America
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