TALENT IS CHARMING THE BIRDS OUT OF THE TREES. ♪ AUDREY: ARTIST IRA FROST HAS A WAY WITH BIRDS. ♪ IRA: LET’S SEE HERE. THIS ROBIN, I ACTUALLY PUNCHED THE EYES. IN THE OLDEN DAYS I COULDN’T BUY THE ...

MENDON -- You could say Jim Podsiadlo's new business is for the birds, and you'd be right. Just remove the phrase's negative connotations and you have a creative venture that has literally taken wing.

Hunched over a piece of wood, Hank Sprouse whittles away in his basement workshop in Stratford, Connecticut. What looks like a simple carving now, will eventually become a realistic-looking cedar ...

They are no more than little wooden birds carved out of mahogany, bass, walnut or purple heart. However, for some people the smooth ornaments are more than just decorations. For the past five years, ...

Ernie Muehlmatt was running a flower shop in a Philadelphia suburb in 1967 when a newspaper article he read prompted a mid-life crisis. The article was about an exhibition of bird carvings sponsored ...

I cover personal finance for baby boomers. In the process, I became completely absorbed in the mini-biographies of the bird carvers that appear in this book. Although the ones that Ellis features did ...

If ever an artist’s competition was an exact fit for San Diego, it’s the California Open Wildlife Art Festival that features top wildfowl and fish carvers from the U.S., Canada and Japan. With San ...

[dropcap letter=”I”]n a cramped attic above a 200-year-old garage in Biddeford, Steve Brettell keeps an aviary of suspended life: there are red-breasted mergansers, whimbrels, eiders, blue bills, ...

July visitors to the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History are learning about birds in ways they could never have imagined -- through the eyes and hands of the skilled bird carvers who are demonstrating ...

A carved chipping sparrow on display as part of Claude and Ethel Kemper “The Birds of My Hollow” collection at Glenville State College’s Robert F. Kidd Library. (Photo Provided) GLENVILLE — A ...

Judgment day had arrived for Donald Skrobak. He paced back and forth, his heart pounding. The Lower Nazareth Township man had anticipated this moment for months. And when the judges announced their ...