Imagine stepping out into your garden on a balmy morning in summer and enjoying a variety of visiting birds. If you want to attract more birds to your garden, adding the plants they love can be the ...

Want to add a splash of color to your winter landscape? Invite cardinals to your feeder. They love to dine on safflower and black oil sunflower seeds. Heather Cwach Special to The Star Feeding birds ...

For The Times’s summer birding project, I spoke to the field guide illustrator about how to sketch a bird. Here’s how he draws a black-capped chickadee → Start with a circle, then add an oval. Draw a ...

If you want to draw beautiful birds to your yard, providing a food source during the winter can help. Karen DeWitz, author of, "Look at That Bird!", shared how to make your own bird suet! For more ...

Many longtime gardeners enjoy inviting birds to their backyards. Birdwatching is entertaining, educational and relatively inexpensive. Setting out bird feeders is a great way to get started, but it's ...