The gray catbird might be the most aptly named bird species on the planet. It is certainly a bird. Looking at it, no one would mistake it for a cat. Hearing it is a little different. The catbird has a ...

I spied a gray catbird the other day at our suet feeder in Decatur, the first one I’ve seen in our yard this year. It probably has been nesting in the thick hedge in my yard all spring, but the ...

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The bird songs that had filled the daylight hours during the spring are fading now, and only a few species still do any singing at all. The birds are still active, however, and anyone who walks ...

If you have thick shrubs in your yard or live near the edge of a wooded area, that slender gray bird that is eating the grape jelly that you meant for orioles is the beautiful and sleek Gray Catbird.

It’s a rare summer that goes by without me writing a column about catbirds. Aside from robins they are perhaps the dominant songbird of a New England summer. At my new home, Chipping Sparrows may give ...

HUNTINGTON - Only a few short weeks after opening, the Gray Catbird Gift Shop at 22 East Main St. has suffered a setback, and will be closing for the foreseeable future. “How welcoming the community ...

Several years ago, I was awakened nearly every day of late spring by a recurring — and very loud — bird sound. I say “sound,” rather than “song,” because this particular noise was not so melodious as ...