I was a bit concerned when a reader wrote to inform me that she was taking up arms against one of our local wildlife species. No, it wasn’t anything dangerous or smelly, like a rattlesnake, killer ...

You’ve heard them. Maybe in the day, maybe all day. Maybe at night, when it seems decent creatures should be in bed. Maybe they’ve added sweet melody to your spring morning. Maybe they’ve kept you ...

DEAR JOAN: This spring, as last year, I am blessed to have a mockingbird hanging out around my front yard, singing his little heart out in search of a mate. Last year, I saw him do something that ...

“Mockingbirds sing sweetly and can mimic dozens of other birds,” Marja Mills writes in The Mockingbird Next Door: Life With Harper Lee. “They are tough, too, however, and don’t take kindly to other ...