Callery pear aka Bradford pear trees are an eco disaster that Ohio banned because they ruin the ecosystem. Here's why and what you can plant instead.

A common hawk of wet deciduous woodlands, they are the noisiest of the buteos, especially during spring courtship. A perch-hunter of the forest understory, it feeds on frogs, snakes, lizards ...

Breeding: nests commonly in deciduous forest habitats ... Vagrant: regular during late spring and fall in the Southwest. Casual, mainly in October, to United Kingdom and Europe.

The UK has some beautiful deciduous forests ... The pretty bluebells will flower in the early spring sunshine, before the forest floor becomes shaded when the leaves will have grown on the ...