One of the best things about gardening is seeing all the wildlife flock to your yard when the plants begin to bloom. But when those summer blooms begin to fade, it doesn't have to mean the end of ...

Sometimes we need to try to slow the pace. I’m not only referring to our everyday hustles and bustles. Everything needs to be done yesterday. I’ve retired so my lifestyle has indeed shifted gears.

We love the thought of birds nesting in our yards. The thought that such a small creature could feel safe enough in our presence to raise its young is heartwarming, indeed — but not all clusters of ...

A white-winged dove recently decided that the hanging plant, sitting about head high a few steps from my front door, was just the right spot for a nest. At first this led to a frightening explosion of ...

Birds are the most diverse land vertebrate on the planet, and now scientists have constructed a complete evolutionary tree of the 11,000 or so known species. This data came from hundreds of studies ...