While sometimes bird feeders attract other non-avian nuisance creatures like squirrels, grackles, and blackbirds, they have become known for invading other birds' space and driving them away.

Last week, on the last day of February, two grackles showed up at our feeders. It was our first grackles at the feeders this ...

Signs of the coming of spring are appearing everywhere. So far, I’ve seen robins, red-winged blackbirds, killdeers, herring gulls, grackles, great-blue herons, geese, chipmunks, geese and others.