Who wants to see an owl? Who wants to hear an owl? Who wants to build homes for an owl? Who? Who? Who? One of the best ways to do that is to build an owl nesting box, and it's easier than you might ...

It’s difficult to ID Eastern and Western screech-owl species—location is your best bet. Hear their call and learn about their ...

DEAR JOAN: A few months ago, we built a nest box for a screech owl as we had heard some in our area. Now, several months later, after mounting the box in a tree and filling it with wood shavings, ...

On April 29, 2020, in my column “Owls in the House,” I talked about a small part of our experience with western screech-owls nesting in a nest box in our yard in the spring of 2020. On Jan. 23 of this ...

• An Oregon junco is feeding with a flock of dark-eyeds at John Pogacnik's yard in Perry Township, Lake County. Eastern towhees and a red-breasted nuthatch also are making appearances. • Jeff Wert ...

A group of live webcams documented a pair of Eastern screech owls in Murrysville preying on a Northern cardinal at a feeder and plucking a mother bluebird from a nest box within the past week.

An unearthly cry sliced the dusk, drifted hauntingly through my woodlot and faded into the cold darkness outside the neighborhood homes. Kids playing flashlight tag stopped silent, dead in their ...

Chuck Oldham is building a bat cave in Darien, but not the damp underground kind you see in movies. This one - made of wood slats and glue mounted atop a tall pole - looks more like an oversized ...

Want to have an owl nest in your backyard? It's time to start to thinking about building a nesting box for your backyard. Surprisingly, winter is the best time to put up an owl nesting box. You could ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published in 2023. Who wants to see an owl? Who wants to hear an owl? Who wants to build homes for an owl? Who? Who? Who? One of the best ways to do that is to ...