Come mid-winter, birders start to experience warbler-deficit disorder. The small, colorful songbirds are favorites among the binocular-toting crowd, and Ohio is a major warbler hotspot. Forty-one ...

Area songbirds are slowly but steadily molting into their breeding plumage. For some the transformation from winter basic plumage to breeding plumage is striking. I have written about the changes ...

Not all birds commonly seen in Chico live here year-round. Some appear for just a few weeks during their spring or fall migration. Others may stay for the summer. Yellow-rumped warblers and dark-eyed ...

I'm wondering when they will arrive, the little yellow-rumped warblers that dot my trees and shrubs beginning in October. The birds breed in coniferous woodlands ranging from Alaska across Canada to ...

The yellow-rumped warblers are back, flitting about in gaudy troupes on their way south. Some will winter in Panama. But for now, they are swarming about my yard. The daubs of yellow (on their crown ...

We can welcome winter migrating birds to our yards by planting American (native) trees and shrubs to create habitat. Birds need insects, berries and seeds, as well as cover, that native plants offer.