Bluebirds aren't the only species to use nest boxes! Learn about tree swallows' nesting habits and why you should welcome ...
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 ...
The eastern bluebird has been the featured subject at least two dozen times over the 26-plus years Focus On Nature has been running on these pages. It’s a subject guaranteed to brings notes and calls.
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 ...
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 ...
An effort to attract more Eastern bluebirds provided more habitat for tree swallows and house sparrows this past year. But Northern State University professor Alyssa Anderson said she is hopeful more ...
A Lynn Township, Lehigh County woman writes: “Every spring when I clean out the bluebird boxes something other than bluebirds move in. I’ve had to chase off house sparrows but tree sparrows (I believe ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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