One of my favorite birds to see in my yard is the humble cardinal. Male cardinals have a black face with a stunning, fiery ...

Cardinals use twigs to form their nests and assorted materials, including fur, pine needles, and grass, to line and insulate the nest. Keep those materials in your yard or tuck them in a suet ...

To protect cardinals and other birds from injury, minimize reflective surfaces, especially near feeders and nesting areas. “While the cardinal population is stable, the bird count in North ...

Just outside my home-office window, I noticed a bird’s nest about 4 feet high in some leafless shrubbery on a cold, winter’s day. I had not seen the nest in summer when it was hidden by green ...

Tips for Offering Nesting Materials. If you want to offer safe nesting material for backyard birds, here's how and when to do it. Time it right. Place materials out in the spring when birds begin ...

Without these, no amount of nesting material serves any purpose. For more information about birds and bird habitat, see Sharon Sorenson's books How Birds Behave, ...

Male Northern Cardinal eating some Safflower Seed in the Universal Mealworm Dish. Natural cotton nesting ball provides quality nesting material for nest-building birds.

Watch for the parents carrying nesting material or a mouth full of insects to a dense shrubby area in your yard where they may have put their nest. They eat mainly seeds and fruit, supplementing ...

The discovery of a nest-building bird in my south garden was a game changer. Opportunities for such close observation are rare. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 76°F.

Once the birds start to spend some time out of the nest, the mom leaves to go build a second nest to have another round of babies. Dad stays to protect and feed the cardinal children.