Nature

A number of recent bloody encounters with aggressive birds of prey in the Pacific Northwest has frightened residents enough that they’ve started arming themselves with sticks and flashlights and strapping on hard hats before going out at night.

Just after midnight on a cool, clear night in late April, Lance Douglas left my house on the remote Blakely Island, in Washington’s San Juan archipelago, and started walking home through a half-mile section of Douglas fir and cedar trees. We’d just finished ...