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 ...

The sight of a flock of robins poking about in the grass in search of a juicy worm is a delight to observe in the spring. These early birds, whose cheerful chirps and playful hop-hop-hoppin’ just make ...

In the spring, robins living on an Illinois tree farm sat on some unusual eggs. Alongside the customary brilliant blue ovoids they had laid were some unusually shaped objects. Although they had the ...

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 ...