One of my favorite things about living where we do is never knowing what wildlife I'll stumble across when I step outside. I've walked out to unload groceries and come face-to-face with a mama deer ...

At the New England Wildlife Center in Weymouth, veterinarian Priya Patel checks the vitals of one of her patients. He's a red-tailed hawk, and for the moment he's swaddled in a sandy brown towel. When ...

SOMERVILLE — When Kathy Ball-Toncic saw a broad-winged, brilliantly feathered red-tailed hawk swoop across the Somerville Community Path recently, her first reaction was awe. It had something in its ...