Owning a wood-framed house in Upstate New York, I expected to deal with snow and the occasional mouse—not birds attacking or flying into my home. But last fall, after hearing a woodpecker drill ...

Owning a wood-framed house in Upstate New York, I expected to deal with snow and the occasional mouse—not birds attacking or flying into my home. But last fall, after hearing a woodpecker drill ...

Mary Jo DiLonardo has worked in print, online, and broadcast journalism for 25 years and covers nature, health, science, and animals. You've probably seen a plastic owl standing guard over a ...

They feast on birdseed in trays, play acrobatics to jump on fat ball feeders and make light work of scaling metal poles to steal the peanuts from my bird feeders ... to act as a deterrent for ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Owning a wood-framed house in Upstate New York, I expected to deal with snow and the occasional deer ...