Hard to believe that June is already on our doorstep in this busy and very active spring season! May has once again been one of the most wonderful months of the year – this year being especially ...

We have a large group of house sparrows that have taken over our front yard, especially the huge quince that provides thorny protective cover. I don’t particularly begrudge the house sparrows their ...

ST. LOUIS — On March 30, 1927, the eastern bluebird was officially designated the Missouri state bird by an act of the Missouri Legislature because it was "common in Missouri" and "a symbol of ...

As I write this column I am feeling quite under the weather. The flu has come to town and it has me in its grip. I haven’t left the house in days and all I want to do is sleep. That being said, I am ...

A pair of nesting eastern bluebirds has raised three broods in our bluebird box since March, and the female just laid another clutch of eggs that will hatch by mid-July. Beginning in February, the ...

If you have been hiking or mountain biking towards the top of the Apricot Crisp Trail in the Horse Lake Reserve in the past few years, you may have come ...

HARRISBURG — Spring might not be “just around the corner,” but bluebirds will be scouting out nesting sites before you know it, and the Pennsylvania Game Commission can help bring them and other ...

They give us life, nurture us and keep us safe. They feed us, teach us how to survive, and one day, when we’re fully grown, they encourage us to spread our wings and fly. Eastern bluebirds do all of ...

There they were, bluebird houses on top of many of the fence posts that lined the road just west of Bickleton, the self-proclaimed Bluebird Capital of the World. It’s spring, and thousands of ...

Making a nesting box for Missouri's state bird might mean you see bluebirds in your yard more often. Missouri Department of Conservation will host a virtual and in-person program, "Woodworking for ...

FORT LEWIS, Wash. In the 1980s, volunteers erected hundreds of small cedar nest boxes and revived a Fort Lewis songbird population that had nearly vanished. Now, with Army approval, four conservation ...