View the November 2022 Nature Friend Magazine
Cardinals, Tanagers, & Allies
What a Splashing Success!
View the November 2022 Nature Friend Magazine Wood Duck drake swimming. Photo © Cheryl Shank. Slowly, quietly, yet steadily, I crept along, my binoculars in hand. Surely I can sneak in here without...
Mailbox, August 2022: Attracting Birds
Let’s Take a Hike: Scarlet Tanager
Scarlet Tanager. Photo © Anthony Sensenig.
Pictures & Poems, June 2022
Focus Illustrated and Favorite Focus, April 2022
Our Birding Day
Sunday dawned a beautiful morning. The first birds I saw were cardinals—male and female. There were Chipping, English, and House Sparrows at the feeder. Out the kitchen window I saw a Junco and a...
Pictures & Poems, March 2022
Our Birding Circle
As I went about my morning work on November 17, the lovely day beckoned me outdoors. Why not do the Nature Friend bird circle project today? The thought niggled at the back of my mind. Why not? So...
Pictures & Poems, February 2022
Pictures & Poems, December 2021
Pictures and Poems, October 2021
Pictures and Poems, September 2021
Treasures of the Forest
Treasure hunts are lots of fun, aren’t they? The suspense of knowing that something special is hidden, prolonged by the fact that it takes effort to find! It was with that sort of feeling that we...
Spring Adventures
Birds were singing that beautiful morning, and there were hardly any clouds. I was walking up the pasture lane from where I had been birding. Dad came walking down the lane. “I was back in the other...
