Pam and Joe Monahan don’t need TV. They have a nesting pair of tree swallows in a bluebird box in their West Neck backyard. The beautiful birds zoom back and forth, dawn to dusk, feeding their five ...

Eastern bluebirds are checking out bird houses. They're getting ready for the nesting season. Are your bird houses in place and ready? While bluebirds have been here all winter, migratory tree ...

In March, right before spring break, a couple of Kutztown University bird watchers got together in the biology building to build some bird boxes that could bring more Eastern bluebirds and the elusive ...

On a recent visit to Bethpage State Park, I went with Kathy Wegman, a retired environmental horticulturist, as she checked bluebird and tree swallow nest boxes. At the first bluebird nest box, a ...

SAUKVILLE – Prairies are rich wildlife habitats. They are so bountiful, in fact, sometimes they even host species that evolved to breed elsewhere. For proof we need only look at two restored ...

In these photos taken near Clancy on Friday, two Western bluebirds, a male (with vibrant rust-colored breast) and a female (lighter colored rust and blue), fight a tree swallow (dark blue wings and ...

Way back in 1934 a song called “The Bluebird of Happiness” with lyrics by Edward Heyman hit the airways to popular acclaim. Today, one Chester County woman, Marilyn Michalski of Phoenixville, can lay ...

On a partly sunny June day, Jack Nowak opens a bluebird box at Brae Loch Golf Club in Grayslake. He expects to see five eggs as he did a week ago. But the eggs are gone. And there’s no sign of the ...

One of the great joys of spring is the first appearance of the tree swallows. In my yard, this event almost always occurs in the first week of April; this year was no exception. It was a close call, ...

Tree swallows, tree swallows, wherefore art thou, tree swallows? I had been anticipating getting my first one every day this past week, but no luck, yet. I was rushing those birds after I had my first ...