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 ...

The eastern bluebird has been the featured subject at least two dozen times over the 26-plus years Focus On Nature has been running on these pages. It’s a subject guaranteed to brings notes and calls.

An effort to attract more Eastern bluebirds provided more habitat for tree swallows and house sparrows this past year. But Northern State University professor Alyssa Anderson said she is hopeful more ...

Nesting birds are rewarding to watch. Get expert tips for on how to attract birds to a birdhouse and learn how to choose the ...

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 ...

Joe Devlin, a Deputy Waterways Conservation Officer and employe of the U.S. Corps of Engineers at Beltzville Dam, has come up with an inexpensive, indestructible, maintenance-free, and easy-cleaning ...

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 ...

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 ...

Just a decade ago, the forecast looked grim for tree swallows in Orange County. While common elsewhere in the country, these small birds seemed to breed here less and less frequently as their favorite ...

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 ...

It’s Feb. 20 and the first spring migrant is flying low over the waters of a mountain lake in Transylvania County. The first tree swallow has arrived, but winter has not yet retreated and it’s a ...

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 ...