This is a good time of year in the Chicago area to monitor your plants for animal damage and to do some pruning. Other than ...

Welcome to 2025, everyone. Without introductory fanfare, here are my top birding highlights from the past year.

As it is expected to get pretty darn cold around here starting Sunday, I thought a column concerning feeding birds is in order.

One of life's little pleasures is to watch birds coming to the feeder in the winter. Frequent visitors to my feeder include cardinals, chickadees, tufted titmice, house finches, downy woodpeckers, ...

The northern cardinal is the state bird and lives in Illinois year-round. Clark Hudmon, owner of Barn Owl Garden Center in ...

I don't receive many messages from my mom. Maybe I have not paid attention and missed some in the last five years since she ...

Attract cardinals by learning what food cardinals like to eat. Offer seeds and berries, and grow native plants and shrubs for ...

Year Three of the Vintage Chicago Tribune newsletter closes — and what a significant year 2024 was. We poured through the ...