My first-floor classroom (I’m a high school teacher) windows look out on a courtyard in the middle of our school building. I moved down here from a second-floor outward-facing classroom a couple of ...

Before European settlement, when 95% of Ohio was blanketed in forests, red-shouldered hawks were common. But rampant deforestation that left only 10% of the state tree-covered by the early 1900s sent ...

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I’ve been seeing a few birds that qualify as fall migrants, but there have been some other birds in the mix, such as red-shouldered hawk.