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 ...

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 ...

A little one-ounce blue, orange and white bird is a good news environmental story, for a change. Amid what seems like never-ending doom-and-gloom reports about climate change, biodiversity loss, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

My friends Jim and Virginia Sowell, who live in the Oak Grove section of Atlanta, wrote to say that they put up a new bluebird nest box last week after a flying squirrel had chewed up the old one.

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.

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 ...