Story and photos by Joseph Richards Under a cloudless West Texas sky, a determined hunter watches his dogs working the brush.

A red-tailed hawk named Stache pins a gray squirrel after a successful hunt. Credit: Courtesy of Christi Elliott I’m an “experience” hunter, not to be confused with an experienced hunter. So I was ...

DEAR JOAN: The last week or so, a hawk has been hunting the squirrels in our backyard in Walnut Creek. The hawk stalks them, flushes them out of the bushes and attacks from low altitude, so far with ...

Of all the red-tailed hawks that have ever soared on a Texas breeze, only one gets to live in Charlie Alvis’s house, at least during the winter hunting season. “My bird has its own bedroom,” said ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – You better move on. We recently caught sight of a wildlife confrontation out the kitchen window: a squirrel scampering on the same tree branch as a red tailed hawk. The squirrel ...

A red-tailed hawk lifts off from a branch in search of food on Tuesday at Lighthouse Field State Beach. About these birds, the Cornell Lab’s All About Birds website says, “This is probably the most ...

My wife and I often joke that we have our own little wild kingdom in our backyard. Over the years that we have lived in our house on the southeast side of Pittsfield, we have seen creatures big and ...