When it comes to American barn owls, forget spring cleaning. The best time of year to clean out nest boxes to ready them for breeding pairs is the fall months of September through November, according ...

The first broods of bluebirds, Carolina wrens, and chickadees have fledged. So should we rid the nest boxes of old nest material and all its mess as soon as babies fledge? Research says, that depends.

DEAR JOAN: What is the right time to remove a nest from a nest box after the nestlings have fledged? I removed an abandoned nest last year that had four unhatched bluebird eggs. A new family built a ...

I start sneezing this time of year due to allergies from who-knows-what, which oddly serves as a tickler to clean nest boxes, bird feeders and birdbaths. Joined by my wife, I hurried with the cleaning ...

I reached out to my friend Jim Bearden, the Bluebird Guy, at Green Meadows Preserve, just to be sure, and he says, yes! “It is the perfect time to clean them out. And clean them after each brood ...

Every morning when I get up, the first birds I hear are the warblings of eastern bluebirds. They are year-round residents of East Texas and a national treasure. It doesn’t hurt that I once put up more ...