Noticing a nest in a tree can motivate the mind to wonder about many things. Is it a bird nest or a squirrel nest? If a bird built the nest, what kind of bird was it? Why did the bird build its nest ...

Once you've decided you want to install a bird feeder in your yard, the next step is figuring out where to place it. Some bird feeders can be hung from a tree branch, a shepherd's hook, or mounted on ...

When planning a pollinator-friendly garden, gardeners often think of flowers that attract bees, butterflies, and other insects. Protecting our insect pollinators is certainly vital for our very ...

Grassy box gum woodlands once covered millions of square kilometres in southeastern Australia, but today less than 5% remains. The loss of large old trees has been a crisis for the many species of ...

When we make roads, houses or farmland, we often find large old trees in the way. Our response is often to lop off offending branches or even cut the tree down. This is a bad idea. The more we learn ...

It’s the Mad Max dream of a bird’s nest: A menacing composite of metal, clay, twig and plastic. Spotted in a sugar maple tree in Antwerp, Belgium, the gnarly architecture brims with at least 1,500 ...