As winter approaches, we're on the lookout for splashes of colour, often found in the form of a tiny robin's red breast in our gardens. However, these charming garden birds are quite particular about ...

In June, if you’re observant, a window of nature opens for a short time. By now, common songbirds like chickadees and American robins have finally coaxed their growing young out of their nests and ...

With early nesting season beginning in February, many of our resident garden birds are already scouting for suitable sites to make their home. But simply hanging a nest box and hoping for the best isn ...

17:24, Wed, Dec 31, 2025 Updated: 17:25, Wed, Dec 31, 2025 Gardeners have been advised to do one thing to their nesting boxes to attract robins in January. The red-breasted birds are associated with ...

Cold weather like we’ve had in recent weeks rarely deters early cavity-nesting birds. I already have a Carolina wren nest with four eggs about to hatch and several complete bluebird clutches. Nesting ...

Across British gardens, nest boxes stay eerily empty while blue tits, robins and sparrows search for the right homes. Which 12 birds will move in if you match the box to their tastes? A nest box with ...

Read this before you start building a nest box for your local birds. Seeing a plywood nest box tucked amongst the branches of a tree or hoisted around its trunk is a familiar sight to many Australians ...

Outside my dining room window a robin is building a nest. Every morning, I stand in silence, watching in awe as nature takes its course. She flies in and out of the leafless dogwood tree with bits of ...