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, ...

LITTLE ROCK (AGFC) – John James Audubon worked with birds through his painting two centuries ago. Gerry Chisholm and Sheri Phillips-Chisholm bring birds to reality today with their woodcarving. 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.

It all began in “the bird shop,” the garage in Southwest Harbor where plumber turned artist Wendell Gilley carved some 10,000 wooden birds between 1931 and his death in 1983. When friends and ...

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 ...

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 ...

There’s a moment when Jeff Jacobs demonstrates his carved wooden birds at farmers markets that always makes onlookers gasp. “I tell them: ‘No glue,’ ”Jacobs says. That’s when they realize his ...

Although artfully placed to attract unsuspecting prey, the dominant decoy setups in area swamps and fields when the waterfowl hunting season opens in the fall are likely to be cookie-cutter uniform ...

INTERSTATE, BUT IT’S POSSIBLE IN PLACES TO EXIT AND WITHIN ONLY A MILE OR SO, FIND YOURSELF ON VERY WINDING, VERY NON-MAJOR, BACK ROADS LIKE IN HUNTINGTON, VERMONT. WE’VE HAD A FEW PEOPLE UBER HERE, ...

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 ...