This is the time of the year to get some nesting boxes prepared for our feathered friends. Bluebirds, wood ducks, kestrels, martins, screech owls and tree swallows will use man-made ...

Spring is finally here, and with it comes new life and growth. All sorts of animals are getting ready to raise their young, ...

Nesting birds are rewarding to watch. Get expert tips for on how to attract birds to a birdhouse and learn how to choose the ...

Like wood ducks and bluebirds, kestrels will readily accept the accommodations of artificial nest-boxes. Perhaps the most ...

Childhood visits to my grandparent’s farm served to foreshadow raising chickens of my own. Tossing seed corn, herding a mean rooster to the coop, and reaching under a hen to gather a warm egg were ...

Make your own DIY Easter egg-shaped piñata! Blow up a balloon and cover it with newspaper dipped in a mixture of Elmer's glue ...

Buddy Decker, Bill Maiers, and JoAnn Schiafone helped to replace old wood duck nesting boxes at two wetlands at the Rolfe Beagle Club. (Contributed photo) Johnsonburg, Pa. — The Rolfe Beagle Club, an ...

By 1944 the Singer Tract was becoming a wasteland, its giant sweet gums cut to make tea boxes for the British ... well on their way to maturity. Wood ducks lifted off the river in little ...

Inland, elders told me, tundra lakes were disappearing, and with them drinking water and nesting grounds for ... Milton pointed to a series of large wooden boxes set deep into permafrost to ...

Wood ducks are cavity nesters and cannot chip out their own nests, so they rely on finding a hollow tree where a limb has fallen off to start a nest. Only rarely do they use old woodpeckers or ...

The Maui Jim sunglasses had the clearest lenses, with no perceptible distortion, on the lightest frames we tested (0.6 ounce, or about half the weight of a wooden ... the size of a tissue box ...