This cheery spring bird with a taste for worms is a welcome backyard guest. But will a robin nest in a birdhouse?

In a robin couple, a male brings his female partner nesting material as she constructs the robins’ nest. The female builds the cup-like nest with mud as its foundation and lines it with grasses, twigs ...

Ranger Mac showcases bird nests and explores how birds design and build their homes. Join Ranger Mac as he examines bird nests and celebrates birds as nature’s master builders. From robins and ...

Last spring, my husband and I began noticing the rising pile of debris on the wooden bench just behind our garage. Dried grass and twigs and the desiccated leaves of last summer’s daylilies were ...

In spring, birds turn into busy builders. They gather grass blades, bark strips, twigs, feathers, string, even mud, which they use to create structures to hold their eggs. Their nests, ranging from ...

Q: My husband was excited when he witnessed a robin building a nest by recycling a shed skin from a snake that lives at the foundation of our house in Clarksville, Tennessee. We're not sure exactly ...

I'd bet that when most of us think of birds' nests, we conjure up an image of a robin's cup, with its hardened-mud base and rather haphazard-looking grass and weed-stalk sides. But birds build a wide ...

A bird bath or shallow dish with water will also help robins stay hydrated throughout the nesting season. Equip your garden ...

Outside my dining room window a robin is building a nest. Every morning, I stand in silence, watching in awe as nature takes its course. She flies in and out of the leafless dogwood tree with bits of ...

Yesterday I watched a male robin gather nesting material. I thought only the female robin builds the nest. Am I wrong or did I discover something unusual? Me too, Jake, For most birders, May is the ...