STOKES BIRDING BLOG

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

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

  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...

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...

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

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

 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...

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

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

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

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...

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

Monk Parakeet Green-winged Teal Painted Bunting Green Heron HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY green birds. Go through your bird field guide and lo...