On a fine Monday morning in May, a bluebird lays her first egg. She produces another one the next day, another on Wednesday and her fourth and last blue egg is added to her nest on Thursday. Nearly ...

Spring migration is over. It’s now prime nesting time for Georgia’s songbirds, most of which are incubating eggs or tending babies. Several year-round birds — bluebirds, cardinals, Carolina chickadees ...

Right on schedule, four of the five bluebird eggs in the nest we are watching hatched on Wednesday. The female finished laying her last egg on March 29 and, with an average incubation period of 14 ...

Iowa Writers 'Collaborative. Linking Iowa readers and writers. I let down the front wall of the bluebird house, the gateway to the inside of the box, and saw four eggs – three blue and one white – in ...

How appropriate for an egg to be part of the Easter celebration of life’s renewal. That’s probably not on a parent’s mind when hiding treats and telling children to scamper through the yard to find ...

You’ll love the convenience of this seed bell which is packed with seeds, nuts, and fruit to provide essential nutrition to your wild birds! Clinging birds and perching birds alike will be attracted ...

Frigid February will soon yield to balmy March, but eastern bluebirds aren’t waiting for a sunny day to begin nest construction inside my bluebird box. One morning with temperatures in the mid-20s, a ...

Q: I have a bluebird house with babies in it on the fence in my yard. I put mealworms in a feeder near the bluebird house for the bluebirds. The male and female bluebirds dive bomb the blue jays and ...

It could be that bluebirds are better off when their first hatch comes later in the spring. Well, possibly, but I have a feeling these little birds always are riding the edge of survival. The question ...

In the early part of April, there were sometimes two dozen mallards on my mostly icy home pond. There was one male who was not fully “dressed’” —while all the other males in the group had long since ...

What can we say about the marvelous month of May? In the bird world, the frenzy of spring migration is coming to an end. With clear weather dominating for most of April and early May, we simply did ...

It’s a colorful sign of spring when mountain bluebirds return to Big Sky Country. This tiny member of the thrush family has two relatives named for where they live, the western and eastern bluebird.