Your garden may be resting over winter, but if you enjoy some winter bird watching, you'll appreciate that there is still plenty of life to appreciate out there. Birds don’t hibernate and while some ...

Seedheads that remain in fall and winter serve as a welcomed food source for hungry backyard birds. (Rick Wetherbee) Designing a landscape with a multilayered canopy of evergreen and deciduous plants ...

Water is the most important thing you can give birds in winter. This is being written at noon on Jan. 2, outdoor temp -8°F. Water, at least in our western suburban neighborhood, has to be next to ...

A beautiful red robin or singing sparrow can brighten the gloomiest winter days. But as the days get colder and food and ...

Your kids might think that birds simply disappear for the winter. But plenty of species don’t actually migrate south during the cold months; others might be making your neighborhood their winter home.

Winter is the time to change the composition of bird foods offered and perhaps the arrangement of your feeders. This will aid in the birds’ survival, as well as increase your viewing enjoyment in the ...

Birding in winter? Many people think of birding in the spring, when migrants from the South come back to our own little corner of paradise. But birding in the winter can be fun and rewarding as well.

Birds that naturally and usually migrate will do so regardless of how many bird feeders might be filled with top-quality seeds. According to Cole’s Wild Bird Products Co., the long-held, widely ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Bird enthusiasts often prepare for the spring months, during which ...