Eastern bluebirds are not really blue — it's the way light waves interact with their feathers. But they are a part of Michigan's natural heritage and now that it's nesting season, they can be spotted ...

A pair of eastern bluebirds began building a nest about four weeks ago in one of the two bluebird boxes in our backyard. They’ve nested every spring, going back nine years when my wife and I installed ...

I love the outdoors! In addition to being a gardener, I am an Ohio Certified Volunteer Naturalist. With that designation, I have been monitoring the bluebird trail in Austintown Township Park. There ...

Fortunately, in Southern Vermont we can watch bluebirds all winter. Eastern bluebirds, Sialia sialis, generally spend the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Happy March! As I write this it is March 1 – the beginning of a very nice forecast for the first half of this typically winter-like month. Who knows what the end of March and all of April will bring ...

As I write this column I am feeling quite under the weather. The flu has come to town and it has me in its grip. I haven’t left the house in days and all I want to do is sleep. That being said, I am ...

You might imagine that a scientific community that can splice genes, clone life and put machines on the Martian surface would know all about the life of our everyday bird species. You would be wrong.