Iowa Writers 'Collaborative. Linking Iowa readers and writers. I let down the front wall of the bluebird house, the gateway to the inside of the box, and saw four eggs – three blue and one white – in ...

DOVER – A local pastor who frequently visits Dover City Park marked Earth Day this year by conducting a special Bluebird Trail Earth Day Walk. Pastor John Wallace from the First Moravian Church of ...

Bluebirds will soon be welcome at First Presbyterian Church in Valparaiso, as a line of houses were placed on the north end of the property by volunteers and youth group members. On Sunday afternoon, ...

PENNSYLVANIA (WHTM) — The Pennsylvania Game Commission took to Facebook earlier today to encourage people to clean and/or install their Bluebird boxes before the species starts laying their eggs for ...

Bluebird houses are simple to build and rarely take more than a single, 6-foot board, a handful of nails and some quality time with family members. Arkansas Game and ...

A little one-ounce blue, orange and white bird is a good news environmental story, for a change. Amid what seems like never-ending doom-and-gloom reports about climate change, biodiversity loss, ...

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Game Commission’s Howard Nursery wants to help outdoor enthusiasts spring into the season and connect with wildlife in their backyard. Bluebird nesting boxes built by the ...

Q: We have a bluebird house that we bought about four years ago and never had success with the bluebirds. They have tried a couple times but English Sparrows get into the box and chase them out. I ...

Owners of bluebird boxes are being reminded to monitor them regularly as the nesting season is now in full flow. The boxes are frequently taken over by house sparrows, which are known to attack ...

Frigid February will soon yield to balmy March, but eastern bluebirds aren’t waiting for a sunny day to begin nest construction inside my bluebird box. One morning with temperatures in the mid-20s, a ...