a suet cake may be the perfect option. Suet involves binding bird food together with some sort of fat, making it fairly resistant to wind and pests. Putting together suet feeders is relatively ...

Feeding wild birds is a popular hobby globally, but it presents invisible disease risks to the very birds that we are feeding ...

Hanging up a suet feeder is a great way to support birds in the winter, but if you don't take the proper precautions, you ...

You can safely put out food for birds in wintertime if you take some simple precautions. While feeding birds isn’t necessary ...

This winter's cold has birds flocking (no pun intended) to feeders, with black oil sunflowers and suet cakes especially ...

It may be a little late to start feeding birds this winter, but it is a great time to plan to get ready to feed the birds in ...

While others are thinking about New Year’s resolutions, I’m thinking about getting out my bird feeder. My primary goal is to ...

This is a good time of year in the Chicago area to monitor your plants for animal damage and to do some pruning. Other than that, the outdoor gardening season is slow. You can still garden indoors ...

In this month's "Cultivating Success in the Farm & Garden" column, Hubbard County U of M Extension educator shares the ...

A snowy morning turns into a backyard drama as woodpeckers, starlings and a flicker compete for space at the feeders, ...