On April 29, 2020, in my column “Owls in the House,” I talked about a small part of our experience with western screech-owls nesting in a nest box in our yard in the spring of 2020. On Jan. 23 of this ...

In an old abandoned house we hear spooky, eerie, ghostlike wailing - haunting voices that move through walls and suddenly emerge from a different room. But wait! Halloween has come and gone, or are ...

On the chilly morning of Dec. 5, Alex Patton headed into a coffee shop in Utica. On his way out, he glanced across the nearby stream and noticed the bird in the accompanying photo. Sharp-eyed Patton ...

A screech owl, or should I say two screech owls, returned to our owl box at home this past week. I first spotted the red screech owl peering out of the box early Monday morning as I was getting ready ...

Last week, I talked about the birds that nest in early spring. I talked about the screech owls and bluebirds that start searching for nesting sites in March. Many take to nesting cavities in trees.