DEAR JOAN: The last week or so, a hawk has been hunting the squirrels in our backyard in Walnut Creek. The hawk stalks them, flushes them out of the bushes and attacks from low altitude, so far with ...

Hailing from the ancestry of dinosaurs, a red-tailed hawk is one of the mightiest assailants. From an eyesight that can spy a mouse from hundreds of feet up in the sky to an angled beak that acts as a ...