If you want to show the woodpeckers that overwinter in your area a little more love, focus on ways to make your yard more ...

As it is expected to get pretty darn cold around here starting Sunday, I thought a column concerning feeding birds is in order.

This can be a tough time of year to be a backyard bird. Lush gardens and seed-laden vegetation have withered and blown away, ...

After we cut down aging trees in our Guilderland yard, a northern flicker tried to build a shelter in the trim of our home.

And I would certainly prefer that people were vaccinated earlier, but I’m not going to make perfection the enemy of the good.” Should H5N1 bird flu begin to spread from person to person and ...

And with temperatures falling to below freezing in many parts of the UK, families are being urged to help support garden birds like the robin. Cold temperatures can be harsh for small birds. Robins ...

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Q: Do people put food out for the birds in the winter here? When I lived in the northeast, we would make suet out of bacon grease and bird seed, but I imagine that this wouldn’t work here.

Cook would drive west to San Francisco, where he and his wife, Donna, lived the other half of the year. Come April, he’d return, as would the birds. “I like being back here with the eagles,” he said.