Every year as mid-August approaches, an office pool of sorts pops up around Hawk Mountain Sanctuary as hawk enthusiasts try to predict the first raptor that will be sighted on the first official count ...

Held continually for the better part of the last 100 years, autumn migration hawk counts in the Lehigh Valley region record some eye-popping numbers of birds passing through the region. The counts are ...

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, ...

We recently got a little snow, but where I live it wasn’t much. But weather-wise, it’s gotten cold, and it’s about to get a lot colder. And we’re finally to the point where even a pot of pansies on ...

Anyone who keeps a bird feeder has likely had the same uneasy thought after seeing a sudden blur of wings in the yard: What was that hawk doing here? A University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of ...

Wind, water and unique geography put Michigan on the map each spring – for birdwatching. Specifically, raptor watching. The semi-annual raptor watch is underway now as birds of prey follow a flight ...

MACKINAW CITY — The Mackinac Straits Raptor Watch has announced the start of its 2026 Spring Hawk Count, marking the beginning of the annual spring migration of raptors through the Straits of Mackinac ...