Owners of bluebird boxes are being reminded to monitor them regularly as the nesting season is now in full flow. The boxes are frequently taken over by house sparrows, which are known to attack ...

Whether you feed the birds or not, chances are that you have some of nature’s pests in your back yard. They could be of the animal nature or even plants that quietly can take over your yard!

Nest boxes are a great way to observe your backyard birds. In fact, you will see behaviors that you never would have simply by feeding them. While the dynamics between different species at the feeder ...

Nesting season has started for bluebirds, and house sparrows often find bluebird boxes a most desirable nursery. That’s a problem. House sparrows can drive bluebirds out of man-made or natural nest ...

We have a large group of house sparrows that have taken over our front yard, especially the huge quince that provides thorny protective cover. I don’t particularly begrudge the house sparrows their ...

Since I first started putting up bluebird nesting boxes back in 2016, I have had to think about a much less-beloved bird, the house sparrow, that also loves nesting in these boxes. House sparrows are ...

Hard to believe that June is already on our doorstep in this busy and very active spring season! May has once again been one of the most wonderful months of the year – this year being especially ...

Q: Just this morning, (Monday) the swallows arrived back to try again to nest in a box we put out for the bluebirds. Last year, sparrows took the box and that was the end of an opportunity to have ...

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 ...