Like many in the Northland, I like to feed birds during the winter. Though there are some who keep their feeders stocked throughout the year, I begin the feeding as we reach November. With chilly ...

I’ve never calculated how much I spend each year on bird seed, but it’s considerable. I know some people who spend a lot more, who think nothing of buying big bags of two or three kinds of specialized ...

Birds love to eat a lot of things, and oats are one of them. Are oats good for them, though? Why do they like them? Here are ...

D.C.’s perennial orchid extravaganza is here this weekend with the 70th edition of the National Capital Orchid Society’s annual show. Through Monday, Behnke Nurseries in Beltsville, Maryland, will ...

Attract birds to your garden with colourful berry-bearing varieties that will keep them fed through the cold winter months ...

When snow falls upon my yard in good amounts, I look for hardy winter birds just 5.5 inches long and weighing about as much as a slice of bread to appear beneath my feeders. They’re called American ...

Sometimes we need to try to slow the pace. I’m not only referring to our everyday hustles and bustles. Everything needs to be ...

Come late October/early November, the American tree sparrows descend on Ohio’s meadows. To these plucky little songbirds, Ohio’s winters are its Florida vacation. Tree sparrows breed as far north as ...

The stars of backyard feeding stations dominate visually. Cardinals and blue jays are spectacularly beautiful. Chickadees, titmice, and nuthatches sparkle with personality. Woodpeckers entertain. But ...

In the early part of April, there were sometimes two dozen mallards on my mostly icy home pond. There was one male who was not fully “dressed’” —while all the other males in the group had long since ...

As I write this column I am looking out my office window at a world that is enduring its first winter storm of the season. Back in October, we saw the first flakes of snow, but that wasn’t really ...