In about six weeks, cavity-nesting birds such as chickadees and bluebirds will begin collecting nesting material to build their nests. So it’s time to build or buy some nest boxes so the birds have ...

DEAR JOAN: A few months ago, we built a nest box for a screech owl as we had heard some in our area. Now, several months later, after mounting the box in a tree and filling it with wood shavings, ...

Leonard A. Brennan, Michael L. Morrison and Donald L. Dahlsten We analyzed how vegetation structure and nest box orientation influenced patterns of nest box occupancy by chestnut-backed (Poecile ...

How to identify: Like all chickadees, the mountain chickadee has striking black-and-white markings on the head and gray elsewhere. The white stripe over the eye identifies mountain chickadees from all ...