DAMARISCOTTA — Mid-Coast Audubon plans to accept bird seed orders through Saturday, Feb. 15, to raise funds to support bird ...

How do you keep bird seed from growing under your feeder? Sterilized seeds are heated so that they die. If they fall on the ground they will not germinate and sprout. Niger is not really thistle.

Even those of us who embrace winter have been homebound by recent weather, so that outdoor story material has been a challenge to obtain. Snow and extreme cold disrupted school routines, and families ...

Just before dark on New Year’s Eve, I filled all the bird feeders, and I didn’t skimp on the good stuff: black nyjer thistle for the ... and set out a mix of seeds and nuts and mealworms ...

Thursday, March 9 Showing through March 24, is Justin Beck’s photography show, “Eulogies,” at Bird Island Cultural Centre, 640 Dogwood Ave., Bird Island. Gallery hours are 10 ...

Spring usually unfolds slowly, carefully, like the wings of a monarch butterfly as it labors into its new life after escaping its pupa. This year, spring exploded, like the seeds of a ...

She loved to vacation in the Outer Banks with her family. She was a bird watcher and kept thistle seed for the finches and nectar for the hummingbirds. She delighted in watching the humming bird ...

The easiest place to find wild Thistles might be the campsite outside Semine, although it’s not an uncommon sight next to roads all over the map. It does tend to end up mixed in with a handful ...