Now that it’s the middle of September yellow leaves are either on or falling off many different trees. Virginia creeper vines are getting redder and so are poison ivy vines. And wild sunflowers, ...

Cindy Hamilton photographed a broad-winged hawk at the Kiptopeke Hawk Watch on the Eastern Shore. Broad-winged hawks are most easily seen during migration when they are leaving the northern forests ...

As we prepare for the arrival of fall, we can also be on the lookout for a breathtaking wildlife spectacle that is a part of life here in the Southern Appalachian Mountains: the migration of the broad ...

With the longer days, the natural world is slowly starting to wake up. Last week, I saw both a chipmunk and a skunk, both of which spend much of winter in slumber and inactivity. All plants and ...

Both are common hunters locally. Both are members of the buteo family, the term used to describe hawks with broad wings built for soaring. They look different, certainly, if you can get a close enough ...

Our recent weather has been warm one day and cold the next, but forecasters say that temperatures will moderate in the coming weeks. When it warms up it will finally be time to put new plants out if ...

“Every year, you know, there are winners and losers,” David Barber said as he settled into a comfortable chair at the Acopian Center for Conservation Learning at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary. That was a ...

STRAITS OF MACKINAC, Mich. (WPBN/WGTU) -- Trained bird counters and bird watchers are getting ready for the 2026 hawk count ...

The broad-winged hawks are back from their far away wintering grounds, so I figured now would be a good time to feature them. While in the Byng area recently, I saw many broad-winged hawks flying ...

The other day I performed one of my favorite autumn rituals: watching migratory hawks above the Connecticut River. When viewed from the fire tower on Gile Mountain in Norwich, one of a dozen or more ...