Homes & Gardens Invite birds to nest in your garden by providing nesting boxes Updated: Apr. 02, 2017, 10:00 a.m. | Published: Apr. 02, 2017, 9:00 a.m.

Basic nesting boxes are a great way to bring songbirds to your yard. But they get toasty in the summer, so it's worth making ...

Nest boxes can be an excellent substitute for the holes found in old trees or dilapidated buildings that cavity-nesting birds, such as tits and sparrows, prefer. But in recent years, bird-welfare ...

Sometimes backyard hosts feel compelled to help birds with this big project, offering potential nesting materials. Recognizing the urge, marketers jumped in, offering balls, bales, and bundles of ...

Nest boxes help many species of birds, including eastern bluebirds, tree swallows and wood ducks, by providing protection during nesting season. Boxes for swallows and bluebirds are maintained by UWM.

Cleaning out bird boxes and letting the birds “start fresh” each nesting season doesn’t hurt; if anything, it helps! Old nesting material can rot or decompose, and may hold parasites like mites.

Before removing the nest, make certain that the chicks have fledged and that other birds haven’t already moved in. In the fall, it’s safe to give nesting boxes a good cleaning.

With an extendable pole fitted with a small camera, Alison Ke could get a clear view of the inside of a nest box, including one time when a small, green Pacific parrotlet laid eggs. Ke, who earned a ...