I’m not sure who first showed my grandma how to stamp the first spring robin. It is not a skill mentioned in Birds of North America, but because she taught me, I can tell you how to do it, and why.

One robin doesn't make a spring, but he came close. His plump, ruddy breast sure dressed up a banal bit of landscaping. I looked at a range map for the American robin the other day.

Last week’s column on spring’s harbingers brought several notes and calls from readers regarding the sightings of robins. Of course, the past week’s near-summer conditions brought… ...

The Cubs and White Sox are both in camp, and there’s something about those first reports from spring training that declare the onset of the season as gloriously as the first robin sighting. That ...

This spring marked the second time a robin couple had decided to build a nest in this bush. My Lovely Wife and I weren’t sure that it was the same couple, though we liked to think so.

Outside my dining room window a robin is building a nest.Every morning, I stand in silence, watching in awe as nature takes its course. She flies in and out of the leafless dogwood tree with bits ...