I spend too many hours now in my backyard drawing birds ... ways that other people can enjoy birds. Bird feeders can be very expensive. Some that are store bought are $80. Not everyone can ...

There will be a Backyard Bird Feeder event 9 a.m.-noon Dec. 7 at Crane Meadows National Wildlife Refuge. The Refuge and the ...

With its happening bookstore-cafe, home-decor shops and farm-fresh food, Summerland makes for a low-key, charming and easily ...

Seeing a few colorful sparrows or woodpeckers flitting through your yard or around a bird feeder can be charming, but there’s a darker side to having an outdoor space that attracts birds.

The California Department of Food and Agriculture suggests using a disinfectant foot bath with a scrub mat at the entrance of your chicken run or coop. Kari Koulmentas, who keeps most of her chickens ...

Your yard and outdoor equipment work hard during the warm ... that doesn’t mean there aren’t steps you need to take to store it properly when peak mowing season comes to an end.

Bird flu has been found in at least one pig at a backyard farm in Oregon, the first detection of the H5N1 virus in swine in the United States, the U.S. Agriculture Department said Wednesday.

When Vancouver resident James Lanz and his wife, Kate Ketcham, moved into their Cascade Park home nearly seven years ago, one of the first tasks they wanted to tackle was the landscaping. Grass covere ...

Margaret Atwood believed that birding helped her achieve a ‘flow state’ which basketball players refer to as being ‘in the zone’. Amy Tan, whose new book The Backyard Bird Chronicles ...

Forest bathing is based on scientific evidence that time spent in nature is good for you. The term emerged in the 1980s from ...

The USDA and Oregon veterinary officials are investigating bird flu cases in a backyard farming operation that had a mix of poultry and livestock, including pigs, the agency said. “The livestock ...

tasked with finding birds killed or injured after being attracted to and disoriented by outdoor lights and crashing into glass. Collisions spike during the spring and fall migrations, and 85 ...