Forty third grade students from Mahan Elementary School, in Norwich, were treated to a bird ecology field trip program at the Audubon Center in Pomfret, on Oct. 25. The program was sponsored by the ...

These lessons were designed to accompany parts three, four, and five of the PBS Life of Birds series. Although this lesson plan was primarily developed for grades 9-12, teachers of elementary or ...

Now is the season for baby birds, whose births are as miraculous to me as the birth of human babies. How astonishing that a female bird can lay a beautiful oval egg encasing an embryo that develops ...

I've been out doing chores with the sunrise a few times in the past couple of weeks. I love that time of day. The light is gorgeous. Dew dots the grass. It's cool and calm. There's something soothing ...

Ask a gardener what they would love to have more of in their yard this season, and you’re sure to hear heirloom tomatoes, coral bells, hostas, daylilies, all of the above. Me? I’m aiming for more bugs ...

With so much to learn in such a short time, young birds need to zip through finishing school. A young robin, not quite two weeks old, jumps off a branch and settles on the leaf litter below her nest ...

Birds can teach valuable lessons. Sitting in my upstairs office, I often see feathered friends stopping outside the window and perching in the branches of the dogwood tree. Most often they are just ...