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 ...

“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 ...

Standing at the window watching the weather can become a consuming activity. Even if the weather seems changeless, something will come into view. While so engaged one day last week, a large bird swept ...

Bill Haley knows his hawks. Each fall, for the past 29 years, he makes daily trips to the Soddy Mountain Hawk Watch observatory to count birds. "You bring a chair, you sit and wait. It's kind of like ...

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 ...

For those of you who have never seen one, a broad-winged hawk is best described as a small cousin of the red-tailed hawk. Both birds are members of a group of raptors known as “Buteos” (pronounced ...

Each fall, thousands of broad-winged hawks soar across the New England sky in flocks known as kettles, on their way to wintering grounds in South and Central America. The sky swirls with hawks ...

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 ...

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 ...

A broad-winged hawk, defending nest and chicks from even suggested observation, will protest with a shrill scream, a definite caution. Then come very close flybys, not-so subtle warnings to get the ...