by Kevin Shank | May 1, 2024 | 2024, 05 May, Birds, Chickadees & Titmice, Favorite Focus, Focus Illustrated, Nuthatches, Premium Edition, The Photo Focus, Thrushes
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by Kevin Shank | May 1, 2024 | 2024, 05 May, Articles & Stories, Astronomy, Stars, The Heavens Declare God's Glory
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Betelgeuse, the yellow star in the lower left corner, is a pulsating variable star. Aside from their twinkling, stars seem to always shine at a fixed brightness. Things aren’t always as they seem though. If you watch some...
by Kevin Shank | Apr 1, 2024 | 2024, 04 April, Birds, Cardinals, Tanagers, & Allies, Covers, Owls
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Red phase Eastern Screech-Owl. Photo © Robert Strickland. Northern Cardinal. Photo © Dogwood Ridge.
by Kevin Shank | Apr 1, 2024 | 2024, 04 April, Birds, Let's Take a Hike, Owls
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Great Horned Owl. Photo © Sam Cox.
by Kevin Shank | Apr 1, 2024 | 2024, 04 April, From the Editor's Quill, Puzzles, Scavenger Hunt
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by Kevin Shank | Apr 1, 2024 | 2024, 04 April, Birds, Cardinals, Tanagers, & Allies, Hummingbirds, Pictures and Poems, Thrushes, Waterfowl - Geese, Swans, Ducks, Loons, Grebes
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by Kevin Shank | Apr 1, 2024 | 2024, 04 April, Birds, Creation Close-ups, Hummingbirds, Plants & Fungi, Warblers, Wildflowers
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by Kevin Shank | Apr 1, 2024 | 2024, 04 April, Mailbox
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by Kevin Shank | Apr 1, 2024 | 2024, 04 April, Articles & Stories, Birds, Thrushes
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Eastern Bluebird. Photo © Steve Byland/Dreamstime.com. One beautiful spring morning, I noticed a pair of bluebirds checking out the wren house on our deck. They flitted in front of the hole and tried to squeeze through, but...
by Kevin Shank | Apr 1, 2024 | 2024, 04 April, Birds, Cardinals, Tanagers, & Allies, You Can Draw, You Can Draw Submissions
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by Kevin Shank | Apr 1, 2024 | 2024, 04 April, Birds, Contest
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by Kevin Shank | Apr 1, 2024 | 2024, 04 April, Crossword, Premium Edition, Puzzles, Study Guide
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by Kevin Shank | Apr 1, 2024 | 2024, 04 April, Camp & Cabin Cookin', Premium Edition
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by Kevin Shank | Apr 1, 2024 | 2024, 04 April, Articles & Stories, Birds, Owls
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Eastern Screech-Owl catching a mouse. Photo © Dogwood Ridge. Only a few minutes had passed, and already a screech owl had flown over our setup. From their calling, I thought two were in the area. Before long, one owl was...
by Kevin Shank | Apr 1, 2024 | 2024, 04 April, Answer Key, Birds, Butterflies, Moths & Skippers, Favorite Focus, Focus Illustrated, Herons, Egrets, & Bitterns, Insects & Arachnids, Premium Edition, The Photo Focus, Waterfowl - Geese, Swans, Ducks, Loons, Grebes
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by Kevin Shank | Apr 1, 2024 | 2024, 04 April, Articles & Stories, Birds, Exploring Nature, Frogs and Toads, Reptiles & Amphibians
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Just as farmers are hoping the spring dries up enough to get into the fields to mow hay, morel hunters are hoping for alternating rain and sunshine to keep the mushrooms popping. Wildebeest herds are moving northwest to...
by Kevin Shank | Mar 26, 2024 | Articles & Stories
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive American Robin in flowering dogwood. Artwork © Anna Boggs.
by Kevin Shank | Mar 6, 2024 | 2024, 03 March, Birds, Chickadees & Titmice, Favorite Focus, Premium Edition, The Photo Focus
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Yesterday afternoon at The Wilds was cold…bitterly cold. Although the thermometer showed several degrees warmer than yesterday, the stout wind made this day much more dangerous. I worked hard to keep my face covered, as I...
by Kevin Shank | Mar 6, 2024 | 2024, 03 March, Camp & Cabin Cookin', Premium Edition
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by Kevin Shank | Mar 6, 2024 | 2024, 03 March, Acrostic, Crossword, Fill-In-The-Blanks, Premium Edition, Puzzles, Study Guide, True and False
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by Kevin Shank | Mar 5, 2024 | 2024, 03 March, Contest, End of the Trail, Photo Contest
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Month of March Photography Second Place Winner Snowshoe Hare. Photo © Evelyn Frazer.
by Kevin Shank | Mar 5, 2024 | 2024, 03 March, Caption This, Mammals, Rodents
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive That wasn’t what I meant by “cut flowers”! Photo © Mikael Males|Dreamstime.com. We invite you to submit your caption for this photograph. The photograph will be used on the back of the July issue, along...
by Kevin Shank and Adrian Shank | Mar 5, 2024 | 2024, 03 March, Articles & Stories, Astronomy, Comets, Eclipses, In Our Skies, Lunar Eclipse, Meteors, Planets, Solar Eclipse
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive March 14 Pleiades is very close to the moon—less than 2 degrees.March 24 Mercury is at its greatest eastern elongation from the Sun. Look for it low in the western sky just after sunset.March 25 in the early morning (peaks...
by Kevin Shank | Mar 5, 2024 | 2024, 03 March, Articles & Stories, Birds, Crustaceans & Mollusks, Exploring Nature, Freshwater, Gamebirds, Mammals, Plants & Fungi, Shorebirds, Water Life, Wildflowers
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Woodcocks are doing their courtship displays. Listen for their loud peenting or beeping at dusk on warm evenings. Grizzlies come out of hibernation in mid to late March. Look for fairy shrimp and other aquatic life in vernal...
by Kevin Shank | Mar 5, 2024 | 2024, 03 March, Mammals, You Can Draw, You Can Draw Submissions
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by Kevin Shank | Mar 5, 2024 | 2024, 03 March, Astronomy, Birds, Hummingbirds, Mailbox, Moon
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by Kevin Shank | Mar 5, 2024 | Articles & Stories, Contest, Photo Contest
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Photo © Ruthann Jones. Photo © Thomas Zimmerman.
by Kevin Shank | Mar 4, 2024 | 2024, 03 March, Art Contest, Birds, Contest, Pigeons & Doves, Shorebirds, Thrushes
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Grand Prize Artwork © Caleb Miller. First Place Artwork © John Mark Ramer. Second Place Artwork © Esther Jones. Third Place Artwork © Nathaniel King.
by Kevin Shank | Mar 4, 2024 | 2024, 03 March, Contest, From the Editor's Quill, Puzzles, Scavenger Hunt
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by Kevin Shank | Mar 1, 2024 | 2024, 03 March, Birds, Caption This, Carnivores, Covers, Mammals, Warblers
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