Long ago, I worked in my father's landscape business as a designer. Drafting plans that matched the interests of our clients and drawing images that helped the homeowner visualize their personal ...

When people put out a bird house, it’s usually to help bluebirds, but other kinds of birds will occasionally move in and take advantage of a nicely built wooden nesting box, too. Tree swallows like ...

William Johnson photographed a great crested flycatcher gathering nesting material in his backyard in Thoroughgood in Virginia Beach. “She is perched on the songbird nesting cage we filled with ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AGFC) - This week's bird is the Great Crested Flycatcher. A large, assertive flycatcher with rich reddish-brown accents and a lemon-yellow belly, the Great Crested Flycatcher is a ...

The melody was diagnostic. A great crested flycatcher was singing from the treetops. As usual, I couldn’t see the bird. Inhabiting the uppermost layers of the dense summer canopy, the species’ ...

On a recent hot afternoon, I heard a loud “wheep” note coming from the woods near my home. I scanned for the unseen caller but didn’t de-tect any bird in the canopy of the nearby trees. Of course, I ...

Flycatchers are members of a big North American bird family, 21 species, many relatives. If they had a reunion some probably would need name tags so they could tell one from another. Identification ...

Anyone who has spent any time birding will understand that certain birds are more difficult to find than others. Anyone who has spent a lifetime birding will understand that certain species are ...

No sooner had I stepped outside at dawn to pick up the newspaper than a migratory bird’s singular song rang out from an oak tree across the street. The song wasn’t as melodic as the tunes of songbirds ...

Quick whistled notes — “weeeUP-weeeeER” — ring out from within the dense, green foliage of a tree canopy during my morning walk through the neighborhood. I can hear the birdsong clearly, first in this ...

Anyone who has spent any time birding will understand that there are certain birds that are more difficult to find than others. Anyone who has spent a lifetime birding will understand that there are ...

Knoxville resident Rebecca Boyd shared on Facebook on May 27 that she enjoyed seeing a new bird at her home. “Although the guide books say this is a common bird, this morning was the first time I’ve ...