Tom Tatum Outdoors: Birds not of a feather nesting together

Be careful with beach-nesting birds

Now that the weather is warmer, our researchers here at Gulf Coast Bird Observatory have begun another season of our beach-nesting birds monitoring project. Wilson’s plovers and least terns are nesting on the beaches of the Upper Texas Coast, and…

Tom Tatum Outdoors: Birds not of a feather nesting together

It’s that time of year here in our neck of Pennsylvania when it’s prime nesting season for our feathered friends. Case in point: Our home in Northbrook is now surrounded by nesting birds. These include a family of robins nesting atop a rain gutter, phoebes (a small species of flycatcher) nesting on a woodshed rafter, a pair of tree swallows nesting in the martin house by our backyard pond, chickadees nesting in the bluebird house on the porch, a…