Molly, a summer Cape visitor from Norway, recently had a birthday party, which featured her very own Bird Watcher’s General Store chocolate cake. How about that? Even we have never had one of those. I asked Molly if she would send us a slice, but she thought it...

This time of year most retail shops have a surprise visit from Santa, but not us. We are getting a surprise visit from an Eastern Screech-owl. This Saturday, Nov. 29th, Amy (the one in red) and one of Wild Care’s Eastern Screech-owls will be stopping by the Bird...

Two tons of fresh, delicious, made-in-Massachusetts potatoes have just arrived at the Bird Watcher's General Store and they can be all yours for free…if your hat is big enough. If your hat is smaller, no problem we’ll just give you a few less. Come by this Saturday,...

Saturday, November 22nd is our 34th annual Free Hatful of Potatoes Day! All you have to do is stop by the Bird Watcher’s General Store, with a hat, and we fill it full of fresh potatoes…for free!! That’s right free. There’s not even any tariffs. And if you are lucky,...

Here is Clayton Ives, the newest winner of our Bird Watcher's General Store T-Shirt Contest. This photo was taken at Mt. Humphrey, the tallest peak in Arizona. He is sporting one of our basic gray tee shirts.  Our favorite color.  You can also enter by wearing any of...

This photo is so cool, we have decided to include our logo hats in our Bird Watcher's General Store Photo Contest. Here is Joanna Ward in Moorea, French Polynesia, swimming with sharks and rays wearing one of our Bird Watcher's General Store logo caps.  And she looks...

Matt Cioffi is sporting our 2025 Limited Edition Marsh Madness Tee-Shirt at the Eiffel Tower. You too can entering wearing any of our logo shirts, so the logo is showing, at a famous place, in a creative way, with a cool animal, or famous person.  Our famous Bird...

Karen Huahine sent us this entry for our famous Bird Watcher's General Store T-Shirt Photo Contest.  She is sporting our limited edition T-shirt from 2024.  Karen is in Tahiti where she saw a huge number of really cool birds which she sent us pictures of. You can...

Matt and Sarah Leegwater are our new winners in our famous BWGS Tee Shirt Photo Contest!  They are even wearing our new 2025 Limited Edition Tee Shirts. They are in a very cool place, Vigur Island, Iceland! Vigor is a small island home to nesting Common Eiders, Arctic...

Last week six-year-old Ollie stopped by for a visit and to tell me about his passion for drawing birds. Sensing this was our opportunity to score some quality artwork, I asked him to draw my favorite bird - the Black-capped Chickadee. A few hours later Ollie returned...

Well, our young Ospreys got a bit rambunctious too soon.  One landed on our back deck.  We didn't even know it until a customer asked, "What's that hawk on your deck?" This is Stephanie from Wild Care who came over and just scooped him up and took him back to Wild...

What's better than watching our very own Ospreys getting ready to fly! We have our very own Osprey platform we had put up behind our store.  It's been fun watching the mom and dad take turns feeding the hatched offspring.  And now they are really big!  They have been...