Looking out my bedroom window last evening, I spotted a bird that I haven’t seen in years in my back yards. A pair of American goldfinches were feasting on some blooming sunflowers that sprouted from ...

Yellow is one of nature’s most attractive colours, giving an eye-catchy appearance to a variety of animals around the world.

A Red-Bellied Woodpecker comes in for a landing on this tube feeder filled with hot pepper suet bits (no squirrels, raccoons, or bears here). A female House Finch and a male Northern Cardinal are ...

Encourage more delightful goldfinches to visit your yard by growing plants they love, including this native flower that acts ...

The American goldfinch is the most interesting and entertaining of all birds to observe this time of year. When other birds have started to molt and become a bit bedraggled in the process, the male ...

I am a creature of habit and I always write my column on a Thursday. On this particular morning, I find myself luxuriating in an unexpected, but most welcome, deviation from my normal routine. A huge ...

As we get further into March, we search for signs of the coming spring. The vernal equinox is March 20, about two weeks away. We see changes happening long before and after this date. Sometimes we ...

Their nesting seasons over, ruby-throated hummingbirds, purple martins, orchard orioles and several other migratory songbirds in Georgia already are embarking on their fall journeys to winter homes in ...

Birds are some of the brightest and most colorful animals on Earth. The blues, reds, greens, purples and yellows of the avian world are rivaled, among vertebrates, only by the brilliant colors and ...

House finches are the perfect urban bird. They would willingly trade an empty lot filled with grasses and bushes and trees for a nice new house with a bird feeder. They are fond (understatement) of ...

Gold comes in many forms: Nuggets, flakes and veins. It also comes in birds. One of the cutest little finches has got to be the Lawrence’s goldfinch. Its gold is not the brilliant blaze of an American ...