Bluebirds are beautiful and particular; the right nest box will help encourage them to raise a family in your yard.

As I write this column I am feeling quite under the weather. The flu has come to town and it has me in its grip. I haven’t left the house in days and all I want to do is sleep. That being said, I am ...

Since I first started putting up bluebird nesting boxes back in 2016, I have had to think about a much less-beloved bird, the house sparrow, that also loves nesting in these boxes. House sparrows are ...

Nesting season has started for bluebirds, and house sparrows often find bluebird boxes a most desirable nursery. That’s a problem. House sparrows can drive bluebirds out of man-made or natural nest ...

In neighborhood after neighborhood, bluebird nesting boxes that were once built and hung with loving hands have remained virtually untouched and unmonitored for years. Theoretically, one unmonitored ...

COBLESKILL, N.Y. -- Among the cheerful photos of perching bluebirds and gaping nestlings in Kevin Berner's collection is a ghastly image of invasion and slaughter. "A tree swallow I had banded the ...