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 ...

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The average songbird has anywhere from 2,000 to 4,000 feathers. A swan can have up to 25,000. But if Bill Rice had to think about that, he'd hang up his band saw, rasp and hook knife and go back to ...

Warren Brown first carved when he was about 8 years old. With a butter knife, he sculpted a squirrel out of soap. A retired Navy veteran, contractor and small businessman, the 74-year-old has been ...

Creek Side Gallery in Leonardtown currently is showing wild bird carvings by local artists Warren and Maxine Brown.Warren first carved as a Cub Scout and, after serving in the U.S. Navy as a ...

Frank Kilburn was a professor of natural history and ornithology at the Washington State Normal School — what’s now the University of Maine at Machias — for 25 years. After he retired, in 1949, he set ...

Eighty-one-year-old woodcarver and naturalist Bob Spear has birds on the brain and has since he started crafting them from wood in 1938. That s when the teen-ager, then living on a Colchester farm, ...

ASTORIA, Ore. — This week, we travel to where the ducks and geese are always at hand — because they are made by hand! If a region’s wealth can be measured by its wildness, Oregon is one of the richest ...

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I met an amazingly talented man at a Christmas craft festival in Hampton. I took his card and promised that I would be in touch. Just recently, I did. I wasn't disappointed. Far from it. In 1969, ...