DEAR JOAN: A few months ago, we built a nest box for a screech owl as we had heard some in our area. Now, several months later, after mounting the box in a tree and filling it with wood shavings, ...

In about six weeks, cavity-nesting birds such as chickadees and bluebirds will begin collecting nesting material to build their nests. So it’s time to build or buy some nest boxes so the birds have ...

Who knew that birds engage in time-sharing? John Russell, who lives east of Bloomington, sent me photographic evidence. “For countless years, we have had a pair of house wrens set up their household ...

Each spring many readers ask how to use nest boxes to attract eastern bluebirds, tufted titmice, Carolina and black-capped chickadees and house and Carolina wrens. Many readers specifically ask how ...

Just finished cleaning the nest boxes I manage at a golf course near our home. There are 40 boxes on the trail. Use splits about 50/50 between Tree Swallows and Eastern Bluebirds. House Wrens and ...

Leonard A. Brennan, Michael L. Morrison and Donald L. Dahlsten We analyzed how vegetation structure and nest box orientation influenced patterns of nest box occupancy by chestnut-backed (Poecile ...