The vast majority of native bird nesting takes place in spring, right after the trees green up and the flowers start to bloom. The spring nesting season feels like a frantic rush to quickly build a ...

Their nesting seasons over, ruby-throated hummingbirds, purple martins, orchard orioles and several other migratory songbirds in Georgia already are embarking on their fall journeys to winter homes in ...

Goldfinches didn't get the nesting memo. The other birds did. They know to build their nests and start laying eggs in spring. The American goldfinch (Spinus tristis) waits until summer is in full ...

For many species of birds, the business of courtship, egg-laying, brooding and feeding young is over. But not for American goldfinches. And so as summer wanes, the time of the goldfinches begins.

Right now in the middle of July there’s not a lot of bird activity to be seen. Most birds, with a few exceptions, are done nesting, and both the adults and young are out moving around, mostly away ...

GRAND FORKS – The American goldfinch is appropriate as the week’s bird, not least because I encountered a male of the species in my backyard the other day. Writing about birds I have seen is preferred ...

During a recent live bird presentation to Nature Day Campers at Chippewa Nature Center, Barb and Joe Rogers of Wildlife Rescue Association asked children to name their favorite bird. One favorite was ...

Back in May my backyard pulsed with the songs of more than a dozen species of birds defending their newly established territories. Now mornings are quiet and still. Except for house wrens and American ...

A: I have no thoughts about goldfinches of winter being the same as summer individuals. The chances are those of the winter bird feeders are not the same as the summer birds. As for why they are late ...

Encourage more delightful goldfinches to visit your yard by growing plants they love, including this native flower that acts ...

Looking out my bedroom window last evening, I spotted a bird that I haven’t seen in years in my back yards. A pair of American goldfinches were feasting on some blooming sunflowers that sprouted from ...