YRK COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) — For the second time this week, we bring you a video of baby birds being fed by their parents. First up were European Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris); This time they’re Eastern ...
This video shows a great example of molting with a very bald Blue Jay who also displays how he can store food (peanuts, in this case) in his “crop.” The crop is an expandable pouch in the throat that ...
Bluebirds are known to migrate to warmer climates during the winter, but if they stay in their home range during the cold months they’ll find that many of the arthropods listed above are scarce. In ...
My daughter and her friend spent the better part of a recent winter afternoon assembling and painting two wooden birdhouses. We hung ours midway up the trunk of a maple tree by our front patio. Then, ...
It’s a colorful sign of spring when mountain bluebirds return to Big Sky Country. This tiny member of the thrush family has two relatives named for where they live, the western and eastern bluebird.
Carol and I were dining on our backyard deck overlooking Oyster Creek this week. We were entertained by Cicada Symphony in E-flat at about 1,350 cycles per second. The love-struck males seemed ...
DEAR JOAN: What is the right time to remove a nest from a nest box after the nestlings have fledged? I removed an abandoned nest last year that had four unhatched bluebird eggs. A new family built a ...
A baby bluebird is reflected in a mirror as monitor Mike Worsham opens a nesting box sitting where the University of Mary Washington wants to expand a parking lot behind its tennis center. Monitor ...