For such a simple design, platform bird feeders can be surprisingly expensive -- and unglamourous. Check the thrift store for ...

Here are observations on three subjects during a mostly dreary week when the weather pendulum, as usual for late February, swung back and forth between winter and spring: Quail season ended Feb. 23.

I call baby quail "buttons with fast feet." Just about this time each year we see them, many of them racing after one or two moms on the lookout for something good to eat. Baby quail are truly ...