While much of the recent attention locally has been on the Eagles, a group of volunteers from western Schuylkill County has been more focused on birds of all types. Those folks took part in the recent ...

Small birds, too, make southerly journeys for the warmer weather of frigid Michigan. Those birds, like the dark-eyed junco, ...

It continues to be a very cold and somewhat snowy winter. Most will agree that February can have the most challenging winter days. The late Doug Chickering tried to find ...

It was cold and the wind was blowing hard, but there I was with two friends scanning the whitecaps of Rose Valley Lake, hoping for a fallout of waterfowl and vagrant species. Winter birding in these ...

Though robins are known to migrate south to warmer temperatures when winter is coming, not all do. And the bird is distributed throughout North America, even into Alaska, Winger said. "Robins are ...

It’s a sunny February afternoon in 1982 at camp. The hot water hisses in the tea kettle on the woodstove. Outside it is 15 ...

Keen observers will learn that some birds like white-breasted nuthatches feed upside down at feeders while others like dark-eyed juncos, winter visitors, and year-round mourning doves snarf up ...

Now, the birds are commonly spotted in the middle of winter. That shift has been documented through an annual bird survey that’s taking place this weekend on Feb. 8 and 9, which McCulloch helped ...

One statistic from the recent Reading Christmas Bird Count on Dec. 15 that caught the eye of compiler Lucy has nothing to do with birds: There were 61 counters out in the field along with 19 feeder ...

Two years ago, I got a birdbath as a Christmas gift ... Another small bird, the house wren, flies south to Florida in winter. But you are unlikely to see it at your feeder as they are insectivorous.

Those folks took part in the recent Christmas Bird Count that the ... it’s also fun to see which birds are here each winter, and which exceeded their ten-year averages, he said.

Other Bernville records include eight winter wrens, 427 American pipits ... fly over Tulpehocken Township during the Bernville Christmas Bird Count on Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025.