View the June 2023 Nature Friend Magazine Black-capped Chickadee and lightning. It was dark and very late at night. The little feathered chickadee had long since fluffed his feathers and gone to...
Chickadees & Titmice
Favorite Focus, April 2023
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Pictures & Poems, April 2023
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Favorite Focus, March 2023
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Creation Close-ups, March 2023: Leucistic Warbler
Let’s Take a Hike: Tufted Titmouse
View the January Nature Friend Magazine Tufted Titmouse alighting on a Norway Spruce. Photo © Steven Smith.
Favorite Focus, January 2023
English Class Was “For the Birds”
Spring Migration Bird Contest Grand Prize It is a typical Monday morning at work in mid-May. The weather has finally dried out following the wettest April on record, and the sun is trying to peak...
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...
Birding Bonanza
Sharp-shinned Hawk. Photo © Kevin Shank. Slowly I walked down beside the row of trees—binoculars, field guide, pen, and paper in my hand, drinking in the beauty of the predawn morning. A killdeer...
December 2021, End of the Trail
Chestnut-backed Chickadee. Photo © Nathan Carlen, 15, Chewelah, WA
Pictures & Poems, December 2021
Learning By Doing, How to Build a Chickadee House
Covers, February 2021
Front cover: Belted Kingfisher with a minnow. Photo © Scott Linstead. Back Cover: Carolina Chickadees on Norway Spruce accented with hawthorne. Photo © Steven Smith.