DEAR JOAN: Something interesting happened last week in my yard. I had just gotten home when l heard loud (really loud) cawing from about a dozen crows in my backyard. I looked outside and saw the ...

As winter approaches, a silence creeps over the natural landscape. Songbirds are mostly quiet now, not to resume their cheery singing until early next spring. Bees have stopped buzzing. Katydids and ...

DEAR JOAN: I would like your help and advice about a small group of crows that seems to have taken up residence in my neighborhood, especially around my cul-de-sac of six homes. About six months ago, ...

For Susan Johanson of Bucktown, morning is a time to sip coffee on the deck and listen to the birds sing. The loud, raspy cawing of crows is not what she has in mind. Yet lately, it seems like that's ...

Now it can be told: the closely guarded family secret for keeping crows and their annoying “caw-cawing” out of your trees. Stomping outside to shout at a murder of crows relentlessly cawing tends to ...