A swallow-tailed kite continued to be seen near Santuit Pond in Mashpee, with another sighting in Marstons Mills. Other sightings at Santuit Pond included a tricolored heron and a ring-necked duck.

In northern Lake County exists a piece of wilderness where wetlands, small lakes and an oak woodland form a healthy ecosystem ...

The cuckoo holds a special place in Irish folklore, serving as a weather forecaster, a predictor of farming fortunes, and ...

Our home in Northbrook is now surrounded by nesting birds. These include a family of robins nesting atop a rain gutter, ...

These recent sightings are compiled by Sue McGrath of the Newburyport Birders who says May is the month birders live for.

Approximately 40% of all birds migrate, whether it’s a quick trip to a warmer location or a long, grueling journey. Birds ...

According to the RSPB, there is a surge in bird migration during the spring, when summer visitors like swifts and cuckoos ...

Birds in Provincetown included a Pacific loon and 2 Manx shearwaters at Race Point; 2 Northern pintails, 13 wood ducks, 25 golden-crowned kinglets, and 40 yellow-rumped warblers at Beech Forest ...

Recent rainfall has brought invasive Dame's rocket and native wild phlox into bloom across the region, but counting petals is ...

Spring is happening, very slowly but surely. Purple mountain saxifrage has been blooming, salmonberry flowers appear, yellow violets are starting to flower. However, I have looked at countless stands ...

Riding along a farm road on the seat of our old Farmall “C” tractor, I look up at a cheery yellow biplane cruising a few hundred feet overhead, as I’ve seen it do many dozen times before. How that ...