Five Halloween black-clad witches stand watch in our front yard. Robins strut around them to search the ground for worms, oblivious to the evil omens foretelling "toil and trouble," as in ...

Walking the dry bed of this prairie stream, out of sight of the world above its scoured cutbanks, it’s easy to think that I am invisible under the wide-open sky. This is how I sneak on wary antelope, ...

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. - Wildcare, a non-profit wild animal rescue, rehabilitation and release organization in San Rafael, accepts abandoned, injured, lost or baby wildlife from all around the Bay Area.

December and January we are wakened just before dawn by the calls of a pair of Great Horned Owls. (Are you up…me too-me too?) The males are returning to the territories of their mates. (After the ...

Their eyes were piercing, their beaks razor sharp, their talons intimidating and their plumage intricately patterned. Even the owls’ regurgitated pellets excited the crowd. Six different raptor ...