Most of the pure pleasure of being an outdoorsman is being outdoors, roaming woods and fields, fishing in streams and lakes, hiking forest trails, or boating along this body of water or that.

For The Times’s summer birding project, I spoke to the field guide illustrator about how to sketch a bird. Here’s how he draws a black-capped chickadee → Start with a circle, then add an oval. Draw a ...

"What should I look for in buying a birdhouse?" a friend asked recently. It was a good question and I wish I'd had a more straightforward answer than "It depends." The choice of a birdhouse (aka nest ...

It's "Draw a Bird Day," and if you didn't know that was a thing, it's okay, neither did we — but what better way to celebrate than learning how to draw everyone's favorite cartoon bird, Woodstock?