We have been eagerly anticipating the arrival of the first ruby-throated hummingbirds.

There are signs on beaches where piping plovers, American oystercatchers and several species of terns usually nest.

I was outside filling my feeder early in the morning of April 6, and the valley was full of a strange sound.

A common complaint of springtime birders is warbler neck, a soreness in the neck from looking overhead at small insect-eating birds in the treetops during April and May.

The first tree swallows have returned.

If you think that our blue jays, cardinals, goldfinches and other feeder birds are colorful enough, help may be on the way.