If you are only interested in inviting nesting birds to your yard, the best time to put out birdhouses is late winter to early spring. For the South, this is by the end of February. This way, your ...

In June, if you’re observant, a window of nature opens for a short time. By now, common songbirds like chickadees and American robins have finally coaxed their growing young out of their nests and ...

Bluebirds, chickadees and house wrens might adopt a nest box, but then again, house sparrows compete fiercely for these, too. A great book for learning about birds’ nesting habits is “Into the Nest: ...

A: Many, if not most songbirds, raise but one brood a summer in the Berkshires and will use a nest only once, starting over if a second brood is in the offing. The American robin will fledge young one ...