in a time of bird decline, counting and feeding them, with emma greig of feederwatch
RESEARCH ON BIRD POPULATIONS published in fall of 2019 was alarming: 29 percent of all birds in the U.S. and [read more…]
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RESEARCH ON BIRD POPULATIONS published in fall of 2019 was alarming: 29 percent of all birds in the U.S. and [read more…]
LIKE WRITER, ARTIST and wildlife rehabilitator Julie Zickefoose, I am particularly fascinated and also often startled by the interface of [read more…]
THE SPRING MIGRATION is on, so birds and their travels were the subject of my recent conversation with Kenn Kaufman, [read more…]
I’VE WATCHED BIRDS for decades, but in one matter, the matter of sparrows, I mostly took the lazy route, simply [read more…]
THE NEIGHBOR WHO HANGS BAGS of giant homegrown shallots on my gate also has rules and regulations. “Bluebird Rules and [read more…]
FOR A LOT OF US GARDENERS, our connection to birds perhaps started with, or maybe even still centers on, putting [read more…]
I SPENT much of the summer transfixed by this year’s pair of phoebes who nested on the back porch as [read more…]
I GOT ON A BIT of a gender kick recently on Instagram, and I blame it on a spider (and [read more…]
IT’S TRYING SO HARD, the lawn is, to find its inner green. I’m trying so hard, I am, to find [read more…]
FROM THE LENGTH of birds’ beaks to the favorite plants of the emerald ash borer (not just ash!), to matters [read more…]
Welcome! I’m Margaret Roach, a leading garden writer for 25 years—at ‘Martha Stewart Living,’ ‘Newsday,’ and in three books. I host a public-radio podcast; I also lecture, plus hold tours at my 2.3-acre Hudson Valley (NY) Zone 5B garden, and always say no to chemicals and yes to great plants.