I was putting out my bird feeders a few years ago when I noticed him. A tiny, fluffy baby bird stoically sitting on the seed-covered dirt in my backyard. I didn’t know what to do. Did I pick him up ...

In some of the, well, less stressful corners of social media, you can hear all kinds of bird calls, people sharing recordings of birds that they took with their phones. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED ...

There was the year when all I saw were owls. One whose wings spread wide as it soared overhead while I trudged down High Drive in Bear Creek Park, its daytime appearance surprising me. And the ...