The Hebrew word for “nest” (“qen”) appears several times in the Old Testament as a figurative stand-in for the home, as in the verse from the Book of Habakkuk, “Woe to him who builds his house by ...

Last June, a robin built a nest atop an outdoor lamp on my back deck. The nest then sat empty for more than a week. As the days passed, the nest’s emptiness made me uneasy and stirred a sense of ...

I’m suffering from the common birders’ affliction I like to call “empty nest box syndrome.” It’s a disheartening malady; it occurs when you put up a perfectly good nest box and birds don ...

Having an empty nest isn’t what I expected Opinion by Marjorie Rosenthal. 5 minute read ... This past spring, my daughters and I noticed a bird’s nest in our backyard, ...

DEAR JOAN: We’ve been seeing lots of mourning dove activity recently and about two weeks ago, I looked out from our backyard window and saw a nest under the roof, up in the eaves. Our dogs and ...

Many years ago, on our way to shul, my daughters and I encountered a baby bird on the sidewalk. It was apparent from its downy fur, tiny size and outraged squawks that it was newly hatched ...

Birds, for the most part, do not live in nests. These complex structures, sometimes meticulously assembled for more than a ...