Off in the distances I can hear the familiar scream-like call of a blue jay. The sound pierces through the yellow and orange autumn maple leaves on a crisp blue sky day. I sit enjoying the sunshine, ...

Image In Northern winter, when most colorful birds are either absent or in dulled-down winter plumage, the blue jay ... the eventual snow line — may be what allows the jay to survive winters ...

When the wind howls and the temperature plummets, it's easy to look out a window as birds huddle in a bush ... American tree sparrow, blue jay, European starling, house finch, mourning dove ...

Even those of us who embrace winter have been homebound by recent weather, so that outdoor story material has been a challenge to obtain. Snow and extreme cold disrupted school routines, and families ...

The snow outlines each branch with ... Ornithologists say those feathers aren’t blue and talk about light refraction and all kinds of scientific things, but bluebirds — and tree swallows and blue jays ...

The stakes are low but the reward is high when it comes to bird-watching ... But then a beautiful band of blue jays will show up and hop around looking for peanuts. A Northern flicker or a ...

And there’s just something uplifting about seeing clumps of plants with fresh flowers sticking out above the snow. As I walked ... other species including blue jays, were still being chased ...

One of the newer hiking tracts in the foothills of Western Maine, open to the public, is the Vienna Woods Conservation Area ...

The Dunedin Blue Jays, the Low-A affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays, released their 2025 schedule earlier this week. Opening Day is set for April 4 as the season kicks off with a home matchup ...