I try not to get jaded about my backyard birds, but sometimes I find myself thinking "just another cardinal" or "I’d love to see something more exotic." Most of us already have a spectacular array of ...

Pine warblers suddenly appear like golden, tinkling ornaments as they come down from the tops of pine trees to alight on backyard bird feeders. They’re the only warbler residing with us in the Houston ...

What a delight to look out my window and see pine warblers all over bird feeders, suet cakes and even on the back deck plucking up spilled birdseed. The birds are the only warbler living throughout ...

Karen Markey has been covered in ticks. She’s fallen flat on her face. She’s gotten lost in the middle of the northern Michigan woods. But there’s nowhere else she would rather be. “Nothing is more ...

ADAMS COUNTY - We followed the sound through row after row of young red and jack pines. At times it seemed distant, others quite close. "I think he's just up here," said Ashley Olah, a doctoral ...

A pine warbler, one of the first migratory birds to return to Maine this spring, perches on a branch. Early arrivals like this can be tricky to identify without paying attention to key field marks and ...

Karen Markey has been covered in ticks. She’s fallen flat on her face. She’s gotten lost in the middle of the northern Michigan woods. But there’s nowhere else she would rather be. “Nothing is more ...