Water Workshop 1st Place Caddisfly larva. Photo © Dogwood Ridge. Beep, beep, beep. At 5:00 in the morning, the persistent beeping of the alarm clock awakened me from a deep sleep. Oh, yes! I...
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Covers, August 2022
Birding Along the Linville Creek
Spring Migration Bird Contest Second Place Linville Creek. Photo © Dogwood Ridge. The clock read 11:30 a.m. I was curled up on the couch flipping through the latest issue of Nature Friend, when the...
Favorite Focus, August 2022
Focus Illustrated, August 2022
The Day and the Crown
Spring Migration Bird Contest 1st Place
Glimpses of Pond Life
Water Workshop 2nd Place Sandhill Cranes. Photo © Dreamstime.com. “Let’s do this project.”We all agreed. What better time than now, with a pair of Sandhill Cranes nesting in our marshy pond?...
Spring Migration Photo Contest 3rd Place
Cerulean Warbler. Photo © Melvern Martin.
Lyra
Ring Nebula. Photo © NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScl/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration. Lyra, the Harp, is a small constellation that lies almost straight overhead on August evenings in the...
You Can Draw a Rose-breasted Grosbeak Submissions
Scavenger Hunt, August 2022
The Results Are In…Water Workshop and Spring Bird Migration Story and Photo Contests
You folks knocked it out of the ballpark this time. It would have been easier to assign ten first place awards than to assign one grand prize, one first place, one second place, etc. What was I...
Let’s Take a Hike: White-tailed Fawn
White-tailed fawn, Big Meadows, Shenandoah National Park. This fawn was a delightful interruption to our reading your contest stories.
You Can Draw a Blackburnian Warbler
In Search of Ducks!
Floating waterfowl blind. Photo © Dogwood Ridge. Oh no, I thought, I didn’t put the flippers on my boots. I will have to wade back to the shore.After some awkward minutes trying to figure out...
