Our sometimes-incredible fall hawk migration not long ago surged through Massachusetts like clockwork between September 12 and September 20 every year. In a span of 10 days, 90% of the entire North ...

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 ...

This bird made hawk-watching famous. Thousands of birders gather to watch the annual fall migration of broad-winged hawks. They start in September in New England, traveling down the Appalachian ridges ...

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 ...

The Tin Mountain Conservation Center in Conway, New Hampshire, is a good one-hour drive from my house. But despite the drive, as with any nature program, anywhere, meeting up with like-minded folks to ...

Hawk Mountain Sanctuary in Albany Township announced that the latest issue of “The Journal of Raptor Research” features papers from two scientists who made their start at the Sanctuary. Field research ...

SOUTH NEWFANE The Putney Mountain Hawk Watch is a relatively small hawk watch site, as hawk watch sites go. The combination of ridge and elevation help to bring migrating hawks over the watch site at ...

One morning last week on what was another miserably humid day, I went out to one of our flower gardens to get rid of yellow aphids on butterflyweeds. These milkweeds were big and blooming nicely, but ...