Eastern bluebirds are checking out bird houses. They're getting ready for the nesting season. Are your bird houses in place and ready? While bluebirds have been here all winter, migratory tree ...

Pam and Joe Monahan don’t need TV. They have a nesting pair of tree swallows in a bluebird box in their West Neck backyard. The beautiful birds zoom back and forth, dawn to dusk, feeding their five ...

SAUKVILLE – Prairies are rich wildlife habitats. They are so bountiful, in fact, sometimes they even host species that evolved to breed elsewhere. For proof we need only look at two restored ...

In March, right before spring break, a couple of Kutztown University bird watchers got together in the biology building to build some bird boxes that could bring more Eastern bluebirds and the elusive ...

On a recent visit to Bethpage State Park, I went with Kathy Wegman, a retired environmental horticulturist, as she checked bluebird and tree swallow nest boxes. At the first bluebird nest box, a ...

On a partly sunny June day, Jack Nowak opens a bluebird box at Brae Loch Golf Club in Grayslake. He expects to see five eggs as he did a week ago. But the eggs are gone. And there’s no sign of the ...

Bluebirds in much of Northeast Pennsylvania have fond feelings for John Jakoby. Toss in many tree swallows and house wrens, too. Jakoby, of Mountain Top, is a dedicated bird box builder and repairman.