Birds primarily use nesting boxes to raise their young in spring and summer, but a simple change can turn the abandoned ...

Many people love to support their backyard birds with food and water, but they don’t always realize they can also provide nesting materials in spring. However, choosing the right materials can be ...

A Bellingham lumber yard, Upton residents, duck hunters and conservationists from around the state teamed up recently to donate materials and build 320 wood duck nesting boxes. On Feb. 10, ...

The first broods of bluebirds, Carolina wrens, and chickadees have fledged. So should we rid the nest boxes of old nest material and all its mess as soon as babies fledge? Research says, that depends.

The nesting material in our chicken nesting boxes was getting raked out leading to dirty and cracked eggs, so this is how I fixed the problem. Also in this video, I show my latest experiment of trying ...

Old Man Winter has finally relaxed his grip on a landscape that's been frozen for, well, a long time. If that isn't enough good news, consider this: Tomorrow we will receive about four more minutes of ...

This year lots of people have been hammer-ready, knocking up makeshift homes for animals that lost their habitats in last summer's fires. But glues and varnishes used for constructing nest boxes mean ...

The RSPB is putting on events as part of National Nest Box Week (14-20 February) to encourage families to make homes for birds and bees - it also coincides with the half term holidays. Right now is a ...