Winter is like nighttime for gardens. The bustling activity of spring and summer fades, and a blanket of snow or frost often ...

For instance, researchers use the backyard sightings that users submit to Project FeederWatch —a joint program run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Birds Canada —to track long-term changes in ...

If you want to attract bird species to your landscape, now is a good time to launch a bird watering and feeding program, in addition to providing cover, food plants and bloom sources. If you planted ...

Black oil sunflower seed is the best option for attracting a wide variety of bird species to your feeders. Hulled sunflower kernels are convenient but more expensive and require careful handling to ...

A great window-gazing pleasure is watching how the backyard squirrels can contort themselves into amazing and often comical positions to steal seed from my neighbor's bird feeder. While I might ...

Q: I have two bird-feeder questions: Are the inexpensive mixes worth getting? And if we want to have cardinals, what kind of seed should we have? A: For a number of years, I would purchase safflower ...

DEAR JOAN: We live in the Oakland Hills, close to Skyline High School, and the bird feeder on our patio has been a real joy as we watch the birds enjoy it. Two or three weeks ago, we needed to fill it ...

Refilling multiple bird feeders in the winter can be a joy. But if you've run out of birdseed, don't worry: You've got ...

Yards that include mature trees and native plants are critical rest stops for the millions of birds that migrate through the ...