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BIRD COUNT: Audubon’s 118th Christmas Bird Count begins Thursday. Starting on Christmas Day 1900, ornithologist Frank M. Chapman, worried about declin...

EAGLE: A woman contacted us with a fun surprise she found Wednesday morning. She called to say, “I’m down near Mill Street on the dirt road here by th...

The leaves are falling, and there’s a chill in the air. Seems like we say that every year, and you know what? We do. For hunters, this is an exciting ...

CRITTERS: Andy Heffner of Ormsby called with questions about critters he’s seeing — or not seeing — in his yard this year. First, he wondered what the...

FALCON: We have another one for our readers. Walter Russell of Bradford stopped back in with another bird photo, but this time he knows what it is. Th...

MYSTERY BIRD: A couple more people have weighed in on that mystery bird photo. Local outdoor columnist Rocky Holland said, simply, “It’s a Blue Jay!” ...

PORTVILLE, N.Y. — As Randy Sprague walked into a fenced-in area for a family of swans on the grounds of his restaurant, Sprague’s Maple Farms, he was ...

BIRD: So, what was blue-colored blue bird in Friday’s column? We talked to readers with two similar answers, and we’re not sure which one is correct, ...

GET OUTSIDE: We were very glad a reader passed this along. “Went fishing and found this at Willow Bay,” our reader wrote. “Actually there were several...

Paul Fehringer, senior naturalist from Wild Spirit Education, displays a red-shouldered hawk during the "Flock to Our Birds of Prey Show" Wednesday at...

It was a fun and sometimes frustrating spring gobbler season. On days where you’d expect the birds to sound off, they remained silent. Other times the...

WARREN — A forest landowners’ workshop called “Working in Your Woods, a Bird’s Eye View” is scheduled for June in Bradford. The workshop will be held ...

CRANE: Cindy Parker of Kane spotted this bird perched on a tree stump on Pine Street in Kane Tuesday evening. It’s a sandhill crane, she tells us. Her...

A mid-March snowstorm was being forecasted by all reports. A nor’easter, as those in the weather know called it. However days before the storm was pre...

KANE — The community is invited to learn about invasive plants in McKean County and the impact they have on nature during a program slated for 1 p.m. ...

WATCHING BIRDS: The Great Backyard Bird Count starts today and lasts through Tuesday. However, if you can’t be near a window, or if you’re itching to ...

BIRD COUNT: Remember how we talked about how the Great Backyard Bird Count would be happening this month? Well, if you’d like to count birds alongside...

As a child, Mel Stoltzfus helped care for cows and horses at his family farm in Lewisburg and as a result developed an affinity for all types of anima...

BIRD COUNT: The 20th annual Great Backyard Bird Count is coming up next month. From Feb. 17 through 20, bird-watchers across the world will be keeping...

Bird lovers of all ages will be able to test their carpentry skills when the Bat and Bluebird Nest Box Building program is held Feb. 18 at Home Depot ...