Blackbirds, Orioles, Meadowlarks
Mailbox, July 2022: Bluebirds
You Can Draw a Baltimore Oriole
Wild Bird Art Contest Child Winners
First Place Winner Baltimore Oriole. Artwork © Elizabeth Boggs, 12. Second Place Winner Barn Owl. Artwork © Blessing Langham, 12. Third Place Winner House Wren. Artwork © John Mark Ramer, 12. About...
Books, Brothers, and Birds
Yellow Warbler. Photo © Darren Shank. It was not a good day for birds, I decided. The trees swayed in a brisk spring breeze, and gray clouds scurried overhead. The birds were probably hunkered down....
Pictures & Poems, April 2022
Harns Marsh Morning
Favorite Focus, September 2021
See "Focus Illustrated, September 2021, for spider photo mentioned above.
Bobolinks Galore
Our grandson Paul hurried up the steps to our back porch, somewhat out of breath, asking, “Grandpa, did you ever see seventy-five Bobolinks in one flock?” “Now, Paul,” I answered, “are you sure?”...
Mailbox, July 2021: Tomato Plants
Covers, June 2021
Baltimore Oriole, Female. Photo © Alva Steury Jr. Garter snake. Photo © Alva Steury Jr.
The Good Side of Grackles!
Oh, just look at those grackles! By the hundreds! We didn’t count, but Norman said “250.” They fluttered down from the trees like leaves onto our lawn, then into the garden, and back to the trees...
Our First Christmas Bird Count
Red-winged Blackbirds. Photo © Rusty Dodson/Dreamstime.com. On Friday, our good friend Nathan came to our place and asked if we would be interested in helping him with the Christmas Bird Count. “Of...
Alligator Eating a Juvenile Alligator
Great Blue Heron photos © Danny Gilliam. Background adult alligator photo © Allen Shank.
I Like Grackles
Common Grackle. Photo © Kieran Li/Dreamstime.com. Its large yellow eye followed my every move, probably hoping I had something to eat in my hand. I had nothing but the book I was reading. Besides...
