If you want to encourage wild birds to your yard, what better way to make them feel at home than to put up some bird boxes. These houses, coming in many shapes, styles and sizes, are ideal to provide ...

DORCHESTER COUNTY, S.C. (WCBD) — Bear Den of Cub Scout Pack 700 recently built and installed ten Bluebird boxes for the new Dorchester Heritage Center. The group built the bird boxes at a meeting, and ...

One doesn't simply go out and build a nest box all willy-nilly. The box must be planned. The kind of bird it would attract must be considered -- because of its size and shape. What seasons will it be ...

Untreated scrap wood can be useful for all kinds of projects. Get your creative juices flowing with these 10 ideas for DIY ...

Community members and service groups, working with the Napa/Solano Audubon Society, are assembling bird-nesting boxes today at the California Native Plant Society’s Wildflower Show at Skyline Park in ...

Volunteers are working across the state to make sure birds have adequate nesting opportunities. The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources reported 58 state parks monitored 2,600 bird boxes ...

The first broods of bluebirds, Carolina wrens, and chickadees have fledged. So should we rid the nest boxes of old nest material and all its mess as soon as babies fledge? Research says, that depends.