DULUTH — “It’s a magical world back here,” Margie Menzies said on a chilly morning in early September. Like most days, Menzies, the education director for the Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory, has been ...

DULUTH — The hawks, tens of thousands of them each autumn, have been flying over Hawk Ridge here for centuries, maybe millennia, but it wasn’t always safe passage. In the 1930s and '40s, and probably ...

Friends with bird feeders have told me that they’ve sometimes seen a hawk diving past their window toward their bird feeder. “It’s usually a Cooper’s hawk at bird feeders, especially in winter,” said ...

DULUTH, Minn. - One-hundred people gathered in a loose assemblage Sept. 25 at the top of a grand overlook along the western edge of Lake Superior. That is to say, they came independently but for the ...

DEAR JOAN: I heard a commotion outside my window and saw what I believe is a hawk with one of my precious little birds held down with its talons. Knowing there was nothing I could do to save the bird ...

The hawk is well known among golfers at Legacy Ridge in Westminster. "My Hawk" is the bird's nickname. A bronze statue to the bird was built near the driving range a couple of years ago. He hunted for ...