Here are six species you’re likely to see in the coming months and what you can do to attract them to your yard. The easily ...

Jan. 4—One of life's little pleasures is to watch birds coming to the feeder in the winter. Frequent visitors to my feeder include cardinals, chickadees, tufted titmice, house finches, downy ...

Mention the name “nuthatch” and most people will think of the white-breasted nuthatch, a year-around resident lured to many feeding stations in the Lehigh Valley region. In winter, however, the ...

Back in 2004, in what now seems like another life, I had a memorable experience on my way to work. Walking east along Wacker Drive, I noticed what looked like a leaf floating toward the sidewalk. It ...

Compared to last year, white-breasted nuthatches likely will show up at fewer bird feeders this winter. But, compared to 30 years ago, the energetic little birds will be spotted at many more feeders.

It’s not quite 7 a.m. on a 15-degree January day, and the first bird of the morning lands on a sunflower feeder in the yard. A female northern cardinal snatches a seed, then uses her strong conical ...

The house where I grew up was a one-level modern house with large windows my folks called “picture windows.” It was on a dead-end road and surrounded by tall trees of mostly oaks, some birch and ...

The best time to learn how to identify birds is now. The best place is at the feeders in your backyard. Typically, fewer than 25 species commonly visit winter feeders. The key isn’t memorizing a field ...

We observed the official change in the seasons from summer to autumn on Sept. 22. This was the Autumnal Equinox when we technically saw 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of night. With each passing ...

A little more than two weeks ago employees and volunteers at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary quit looking skyward with binoculars and notepads in hand, marking the finish of the 122-day census period which ...