DEAR JOAN: A few months ago, we built a nest box for a screech owl as we had heard some in our area. Now, several months later, after mounting the box in a tree and filling it with wood shavings, ...

I’ve been snooping on cavity nesters of late. Thank goodness a bit of their nesting lives takes place where humans can relish the action. To wit, a nest box in the yard where a black-capped chickadee ...

Have you installed a birdhouse on your property to accommodate Chatham's cavity-nesting songbirds? If you have, do you check the box? I know it can make you feel like a nosy busybody or even downright ...

Chickadees are so much fun – and they’re not a shy bird. They’re usually the first to check out a new feeder, are often the first on the scene to jeer at an intruder, and we get to enjoy them year ...

Chickadees don't have opposable thumbs. They don't have a Congress. Those handicaps aside, they've done well for themselves accommodating the world. In turn, there are a couple of things you can do to ...

Chickadees that live among us are precious neighbors, for they have much information to share in exchange for a spiffy nest box Beginning in the fall of 2018 and continuing today, a large number of ...

In a small wooden box strapped to a lodgepole pine sits a plump mountain chickadee. She lifts her small bill and white eyebrows and flies out, revealing five chicks that are a week old. Bony and ...

Leonard A. Brennan, Michael L. Morrison and Donald L. Dahlsten We analyzed how vegetation structure and nest box orientation influenced patterns of nest box occupancy by chestnut-backed (Poecile ...

Ms. Renkl is a contributing Opinion writer who covers flora, fauna, politics and culture in the American South. NASHVILLE — The drama started the first time a house wren showed up, nearly a decade ago ...

How to identify: Like all chickadees, the mountain chickadee has striking black-and-white markings on the head and gray elsewhere. The white stripe over the eye identifies mountain chickadees from all ...