Trails and Tails Contest First Place Art Winner + honorable mention art and writing
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Mailbox, April 2025
110 Things to See With a Telescope. Thundersnows. Read the April letters to the editor.
You Can Draw a White-breasted Nuthatch Submissions
Children’s submissions for You Can Draw a White-breasted Nuthatch lesson.
You Can Draw a Mockingbird
In five steps, you can draw a Northern Mockingbird too!
In the Heart of My Tree
Nature enchants me.
But I am not a birder.
Nor a stargazer.
Nor a leaf-ologist.
I looked for poetry
in all of these.
I was eluded.
And then I found it—
a charming cadence—
In the Heart of My Tree
Exploring Nature, April 2025
Morels…migrations…and more. Nature highlights for April!
Slippery Salamander Quiz
Can you reach the end? Learn interesting facts along the way!
End of the Trail, April 2025
Trails and Tales Contest Photo Second Place Winner
Study Guide Puzzles, April 2025
Reinforce nature facts from the April issue with the Study Guide puzzles!
Peanuts in Pennsylvania?
I carefully shelled the 100 peanuts he had given me and planted them in the makeshift greenhouse on the south porch around three weeks before last frost… Last off all comes the best part…enjoying cheap peanuts.
Camp & Cabin Cookin’, April 2025
Breakfast Casserole Bake… Delicious Tomato Soup… Ten-Minute Breadsticks… Homemade Punch
Favorite Focus, April 2025
View our readers’ favorite photos from the past month!
Spring 2025 Contests!
Check out our latest contests for spring 2025!
The Secret Lives of Night Herons: Nature’s Twilight Fishermen
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Black-crowned Night Heron. Photo © Allen Shank. As the sun dips below the horizon and most birds settle in for the night, another shift of hunters emerges...
Covers, March 2025
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