It is only early March, with Old Man Winter still looming large in the rearview mirror. But the birds speak – literally – of spring. Ever-lengthening daylight hours trigger our earliest songbirds to ...

Second, when I replaced the plants, I chose a wide variety of native species. Later, I found out that having a variety of ...

Q: This winter for the first time I've had a red-bellied woodpecker coming to my feeders. I'm hoping she might find a mate and nest nearby in the spring, since I love having more varieties of ...

The house wren is a plain looking songbird, but its bubbling songs and nonstop activity make this cavity nester a pleasure to ...

ONE RECENT morning while eating breakfast, I noticed a bird at the feeder that looked slightly different than the chickadees and goldfinches and titmice and other regular “little brown jobbers.” A ...

On these cool, late autumn days, when most birds have ceased singing and a hush has fallen over the landscape, the Carolina wren still enlivens our neighborhoods with vibrant, full-throated song.

Last week, I was walking along the greenway at Historic Bethabara Park looking for migrating fall warblers. Movement in a nearby tree lifted my hopes, but soon I heard the familiar ...

Are you considering adding a bird feeder in the back yard of your South Carolina home? Maybe you’ve had one for some time, but would like to know more about the birds using it? There are hundreds of ...

In Massachusetts, it's not surprising to observe a plethora of black-capped chickadees flitting about in the tangled underbrush. Chickadees are, after all, the official state bird and have been since ...

For the last few weeks, just before sunrise — if it is not cold or rainy — I wake to the lovely song of a Carolina wren, sweet, loud and constantly changing from one tune to another with some melodic ...

COLUMBIA — South Carolina’s new driver’s license will feature state symbols, including yellow jessamine, the Carolina wren and the loggerhead sea turtle, an homage to the state’s flora and fauna. In ...