While owls can be creatures symbolizing wisdom and knowledge, as a fierce, flying nocturnal predator they are also more commonly associated with things like death, fear, and even witches. When you ...

Like many animals active at night, owls occasionally get a negative reputation. You just can't have a spooky Halloween setting without the sinister silhouette and haunting hoot of an owl, for instance ...

October is "Owl Month." It isn’t only the attention they get from the Halloween fun. This is a time of the year when owls are noticeably active. They are establishing their winter territories. That ...

Imagine yourself with barn-owl skills as you scout out those Halloween treats. You could use your excellent low-light vision with nothing but the moon to light your way. Or, if you wanted, you could ...

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 ...

Long ago, before children went door to door trick-or-treating, it was the reverberating basso call of a great horned owl — “whoo-whoo” — or the shrill tremolo whistle of a screech owl that spooked the ...

As Halloween fast approaches, and with the cold nights drawing in, supernatural and paranormal activities usually begin an unsettling rise. But when Sally Nairn and her friend Rachel Elliot heard ...

In the same way that I like to look for signs of spring, now, in the fall, I enjoy the countdown to winter. I have a short-term goal as well — the countdown to Halloween. How many "ghoulish" things in ...

Leave this field empty if you're human: Now in its 23rd year, the event – which started at 3 p.m., just as many of the trick-or-treaters got out of school – includes a haunted walk for the bravest of ...