Do you enjoy watching wild birds in your yard? Most Arkansans do, and now is a perfect time to enhance those opportunities by building and installing nest boxes around your property.

Nest boxes help many species of birds, including eastern bluebirds, tree swallows and wood ducks, by providing protection during nesting season.

In about six weeks, cavity-nesting birds such as chickadees and bluebirds will begin collecting nesting material to build their nests. So it’s time to build or buy some nest boxes so the birds ...

It would be nice to say, "Hang a birdhouse and they will come," but attracting wild birds to nest in your yard isn't quite so easy.

Novelty bird nest boxes in unusual colours and designs could be dangerous for birds, the RSPB has warned. Bird houses decorated in bright colours or shaped to look like real houses, caravans or ...

Therefore, nest boxes made for house wrens, which have an entrance hole of only 1 inch, will discourage the sparrow. House wrens, although not colorful birds, are enjoyable to have around.

It's not easy to attract the little nesting birds, but we'll show you how to set up a hummingbird nesting box for the best chance they will actually use it.

My official word on nest boxes is to clean them out in the offseason. Cleaning out bird boxes and letting the birds “start fresh” each nesting season doesn’t hurt; if anything, it helps! Old ...

Nest boxes - the good, the bad and the ugly The RSPB is putting on events as part of National Nest Box Week (14-20 February) to encourage families to make homes for birds and bees - it also ...

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 ...

Mourning doves are building a nest on a patio table, causing concern because the neighborhood has roaming cats.