A February afternoon. It was a slightly cloudy afternoon, and the forest was filled with cold air.The first thing I heard was the call of a great tit. I stopped and listened intently. Then, a Eurasian ...

A Hidden Camera captures a nuthatch clinging to rough tree bark beside a natural hollow in a mature woodland tree. Its blue-gray back, warm orange underside, dark eye stripe, pointed bill, and strong ...

Charlie Sullivan has been a tattoo artist for 10 years and birds have always been the biggest inspiration for his artwork. The 31-year-old, who works at the Golden Goose tattoo studio in Birmingham, ...

The distinctive rubber ducky squeak of the Brown-headed Nuthatch can once more be heard in Missouri’s Ozarks. The tiny songbird, an energetic brown, white, and gray-blue acrobat that flits from tree ...

The Brown-Headed Nuthatch might not be the most spectacular bird out there but I was super excited to find this one. Especially since I got to watch it hang and climb upside down for a few minutes, ...

A stroll along the dike trail in late-mid July was replete with nice observations. As readers know, I’ve been concerned about our local bee populations, with just spotty reports of abundance. On that ...

No one likes to get duped by fake news, including the red-breasted nuthatch. A year-round resident of the Inland Northwest, this quirky little bird does its best to verify information before ...

Window feeders provide endless entertainment for kitties, which pays off twofold: it keeps the cats happy and amused without exposing them to the outdoor dangers of predators and cars, and also lets ...

We’ve managed to enable the upcoming “My Calling Card” feature in Google’s Phone app. You can now create your own Calling Card, choose a photo, customize fonts, and control who sees it. If someone ...

I recently ran across the description of a white-breasted nuthatch in Arthur Cleveland Bent’s book collection, “Life Histories of Familiar North American Birds.” Even if you do not know this bird, you ...

I have a wonderful neighbor named Bruce. Whenever I pass his drive, thoughts occur to me. We’re moving into the time of year when we’re reminded that we have a state bird, a state flower and a state ...