Backyard Birding – Page 4

Time for Bird Bingo!

It’s spring! It is literally time to get out there with the birds! To keep things interesting, especially as avian […]

Is the baby a nestling or a fledgling? Nestlings are featherless or nearly so, and their eyes are not opened,

I enjoy watching and photographing bird behavior. Recently I had the opportunity to photograph a white-breasted nuthatch pair as they

A little over a year ago, just as Ohio’s governor was announcing stay-at-home orders, I was packing up my things

For the first time in the nearly seven years I’ve lived in this house, birds have nested on my front porch. Not one nest, but two:

I’ll always enjoy the coziness of wintertime, but nothing rivals the anticipation of emerging bulbs and plants awakening in the

This spring has been rife with reports from backyard birders spotting finches and other feeder birds suffering from red, swollen

It’s that time of year when we start hearing the perennial question: When should I put out my hummingbird feeder?

I don’t use my front door very much anymore. Perhaps I’ll pop in and out of it once per day

The weekend of February 12–15, unleash your inner citizen scientist by joining the Great Backyard Bird Count. Participation can be

It’s wintertime here in Ohio, and that means keeping an eye on the weather forecast on the regular. As a

Suet Suet is number one on most woodpeckers’ list of preferred foods offered by humans. Suet is dense, hard, white