I observed a female chipping sparrow with something in it’s beak. It looked like short, fine pieces of tan, dry grass.

Tuesday, July 1 at 7:30 a.m. (Bluebird Walk #2) … Tuesday, July 15 at 7:30 a.m. (Bluebird Walk #3). NOTES: Join Bruce Buckle and Fred Stiner for an exciting bluebird nest box inspection walk at Rider ...

Many of the UK’s bird species are in serious decline, largely due to habitat destruction and the collapse of food chains ...

On May 14, the sky is grey and bleary, the woodlands are a curtain of green leaves. Danny and I and the two participants in our Hand Hollow Bird Walk, Leslie Gura and Elizabeth Wong, start down the ...

Nest boxes account for only a small fraction of tree swallow nest sites. Natural cavities, where most tree swallows build their nests, have been disappearing for the past 200 years as people clear the ...

I have also found them nesting under roof eaves of some large barns. Tree swallows seemed to have been faring well, benefiting from our love of Eastern bluebirds. With many people erecting bluebird ...

In Vermont, researchers have investigated the types of creepy, crawly bugs that their avian predators consume and may have ...

The popularity of bluebirds has been a bonanza for Tree Swallows, which use nest boxes built to the same dimensions. However, since suitable nest sites are usually in short supply, there can be ...

A once-ordinary lawn in Hopewell Valley is now teeming with life — and has earned national recognition for it. A goldfish, ...

In what began as a side project in 2022 for Berkshire Bird Observatory Executive Director Ben Nickley, The Kestrel Nest Box Project is on track to have added over 200 kestrels to the local population ...