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, ...

I’ve been snooping on cavity nesters of late. Thank goodness a bit of their nesting lives takes place where humans can relish the action. To wit, a nest box in the yard where a black-capped chickadee ...

Have you installed a birdhouse on your property to accommodate Chatham's cavity-nesting songbirds? If you have, do you check the box? I know it can make you feel like a nosy busybody or even downright ...

In a small wooden box strapped to a lodgepole pine sits a plump mountain chickadee. She lifts her small bill and white eyebrows and flies out, revealing five chicks that are a week old. Bony and ...

Chickadees that live among us are precious neighbors, for they have much information to share in exchange for a spiffy nest box Beginning in the fall of 2018 and continuing today, a large number of ...

How to identify: Like all chickadees, the mountain chickadee has striking black-and-white markings on the head and gray elsewhere. The white stripe over the eye identifies mountain chickadees from all ...

Everyone has a chickadee tale, it seems, because these busy little birds are always up to something. Chickadees, plain and simple, are engaging, energetic and delightful little birds. These ...

Food and shelter can help up the survival chances for chickadees in winter. Chickadees don't have opposable thumbs. They don't have a Congress. Those handicaps aside, they've done well for themselves ...