Making birds comfortable in your yard is one way to keep them coming back, but in the winter you may need to take it a step further with a roosting box.

Midsummer heat can be lethal to young birds in "inside" nests. Subscribe. Log In. Minnesota News You Can Use. Subscribe. The Latest. 16 minutes ago.

Small birds start to look for a nest site in the latter half of February, but some birds will use them to roost in winter, so putting up your nest box in late winter is ideal. However, it’s never too ...

Add an owl's nest box for a fun, backyard project that will improve the biodiversity of your yard. This science and carpentry based backyard build is perfect for family fun and birdwatching.

So between broods, evidence says to clean out the boxes as soon as birds fledge. At the end of the season, however, another study by W. H. Davis and colleagues (1994) found that bluebirds ...

It doesn’t feel like it has been four years since we moved into our Essex home. We are blessed with a wooded backyard with a stream running through it. It ...

Sprouting like skinny mushrooms, each has a wooden nest box mounted on the top of a 6-foot pole. The shelters are seasonal homes for tree swallows and eastern bluebirds, species that historically ...

For the osprey that call New York’s Hudson Valley home, the bridges offer a tempting nesting ground.Positioned high above the fish-filled Hudson River, the large birds have a nest on top of the ...

Their feathers, roosting behaviors and adaptability help birds survive the cold, “nature’s proving ground.” By Margaret Roach Winter mornings begin at David Sibley’s Deerfield, Mass ...

“They [the birds] were back there as soon as we left, rearranging the sticks and establishing their nest.” When all weighed together, the engineers took about 500 pounds of steel 350 feet in ...