Our home in Northbrook is now surrounded by nesting birds. These include a family of robins nesting atop a rain gutter, ...

But one newcomer this year is a pair of purple finches that decided to construct their nest in the middle of one of our hanging baskets on the front porch. The eye level nest afforded me close ...

Kellie Joyce spotted a house finch on May 1, and immediately knew it was unusual. "The house finch came in with a flock of about 20 to 25 purple finches, and along with that came in about 50 Savannah ...