The initial joy in discovering a nesting pair of birds in your yard often wanes as you worry if and when the young will hatch, whether they will get predated and whether the adults will find enough… ...

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.

Once, I did see a chickadee emerging from the nest box hanging in the rose arbor, but the sticks told me all was well. Chickadees in this yard have always built their nests out of moss.

They prefer nest boxes with a clear flight path. Chickadees are just the opposite. ... Chickadees are most likely to nest in houses that are 4 to 8 feet above the floor of a thicket.

To up the chickadees’ chances, I hung a new nest box at the top of the rose arbor beside our driveway. The thorns of the climbing rose would deter climbing snakes, I hoped.

To wit, a nest box in the yard where a black-capped chickadee pair has taken up residence. It’s a new box this year, purposefully placed 10 yards away from the edge of the woods.

There are over 20 resident Florida birds that nest in cavities in trees or branches. These include Eastern Bluebird, Carolina Chickadee, Tufted Titmouse, White-breasted Nuthatch, Great-crested ...

Then there's Maybury State Park, with its meadow ringed with trees, and its 85 nesting boxes across the park in Wayne County. The park started adding predator guards to the boxes in 2014 and the ...

This Carolina chickadee may weigh just a third of an ounce, but when this little cutie pie wants to be heard, he belts out a song that rivals even his much larger feathered cousins in The ...

Nest boxes provide safe spaces for cavity-nesting birds to hatch their broods. A middle school curriculum has been developed in Wisconsin to help students learn about wetland ecology and nest ...

Of the five bluebird trails she monitors, the largest one is at Camphill Village in Phoenixville which supports over 50 nest boxes for native cavity-nesters (like eastern bluebirds) and 30 ...