BUFFALO, N.Y. — A baby screech owl had to be rescued after it left its home before it was ready. On Tuesday, a Cheektowaga resident was having work done on their house, when one of the workers ...

Want to have an owl nest in your backyard? It's time to start to thinking about building a nesting box for your backyard. Surprisingly, winter is the best time to put up an owl nesting box. You could ...

On April 29, 2020, in my column “Owls in the House,” I talked about a small part of our experience with western screech-owls nesting in a nest box in our yard in the spring of 2020. On Jan. 23 of this ...

DEAR JOAN: A few months ago, we built a nest box for a screech owl as we had heard some in our area. Now, several months later, after mounting the box in a tree and filling it with wood shavings, ...

A group of live webcams documented a pair of Eastern screech owls in Murrysville preying on a Northern cardinal at a feeder and plucking a mother bluebird from a nest box within the past week.

When we do our routine activities at night we sometimes meet the wild creatures of the dark hours. Most are mammals. Few of them are birds, but owls are the exception. Six species occur regularly in ...

It was a magical time in my backyard for two weeks this past summer. One August morning I walked out the back door just at dawn to meet a friend for a “beat the heat” walk, when suddenly two birds ...

March 14 (UPI) --A Florida sheriff's office teamed up with utility workers to rescue the eggs from a screech owl next precariously perched at the top of a power pole that was scheduled for replacement ...

Who wants to see an owl? Who wants to hear an owl? Who wants to build homes for an owl? Who? Who? Who? One of the best ways to do that is to build an owl nesting box, and it's easier than you might ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published in 2023. Who wants to see an owl? Who wants to hear an owl? Who wants to build homes for an owl? Who? Who? Who? One of the best ways to do that is to ...