I don’t want any trouble, Chris, “What are you looking at?” is usually a line heard in a movie, just before a barroom brawl breaks out. But in this case, it was a friendly inquiry from Chris, whom I ...

Every year around this time a diminutive and delicate-looking bird, about the size of a common house sparrow, shows up in small groups at North Point State Park in Baltimore County, on the shores of ...

Heidi Atter/CBC While people begin to enjoy the warmer temperatures, some birds are heading north to avoid them. Snow buntings are small black and white birds that thrive in temperatures below 12 C ...

YAKIMA, Wash. — The snow bunting is a true “Snowbird.” It is a species related to sparrows that nests in rocky arctic regions all around the Northern Hemisphere, and comes south to Central Washington ...

Snow buntings are perhaps one of the more underappreciated birds of winter. I remember the first time I ever knowingly saw snow buntings. It was years ago, I had arrived at my kids’ school parking lot ...

“When winter storms sweep across the land these birds blow in like true snowflakes and settle down on wind-blown hillsides and benchlands to feed upon the weed stalks that rise above the snow. They ...

November gives us shorter days with early sunsets and cooling temperatures. We start to see ice on ponds, swamps and eventually on lakes. Since the ground and forest floor are covered with downed ...

RICHMOND At the Fort Clinch State Park awhile back, we walked a long pier out into the sea looking for the purple sandpiper. The book said such a bird was often seen there, but we didn't find one. We ...

Snow buntings are small black and white birds that thrive in cold temperatures While people begin to enjoy the warmer temperatures, some birds are heading north to avoid them. Snow buntings are small ...