Coweta resident Bob Walshaw is in the business of saving bluebirds. The eastern bluebird, one of the more colorful and gentle birds with a beautiful song, is in trouble in this part of the country, ...

Way back in 1934 a song called “The Bluebird of Happiness” with lyrics by Edward Heyman hit the airways to popular acclaim. Today, one Chester County woman, Marilyn Michalski of Phoenixville, can lay ...

Saturday, April 27, is the big Eastern Bluebird Festival in Warrenton. The governor just days ago proclaimed Warrenton a bluebird capital. For years, volunteers have built bluebird houses and shipped ...

As I write this column I am feeling quite under the weather. The flu has come to town and it has me in its grip. I haven’t left the house in days and all I want to do is sleep. That being said, I am ...

Eastern bluebirds are not really blue — it's the way light waves interact with their feathers. But they are a part of Michigan's natural heritage and now that it's nesting season, they can be spotted ...

Bluebird houses have to be small to fit the needs of the minute colorful birds. The kits made by one woodworking club are also designed to meet the needs of the small hands of children. Years ago, the ...

You might imagine that a scientific community that can splice genes, clone life and put machines on the Martian surface would know all about the life of our everyday bird species. You would be wrong.