A few years ago, my senior dog Sheldon alerted me to something unusual in our backyard. He had found a young crow hopping on the ground. From a distance, I watched the bird. It didn’t try to fly, and ...

A new face in your yard? The face of some strange, pale new bird, streaky and splotchy, with no clear field marks? And you wonder who it is. Fledglings, the term for birds just out of the nest, often ...