View the September 2023 Nature Friend Magazine Ruby-throated Hummingbird nest. Photo © Kevin Shank. We had barely finished photographing the nest featured in the August issue, when Cheryl spotted...
Hummingbirds
Focus Illustrated and Favorite Focus, September 2023
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Covers, August 2023
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Hummer Delights
View the August 2023 Nature Friend Magazine Ruby-throated Hummingbird nest. Photo © Kevin Shank. I perched on scaffolding, twenty feet above a quiet country road. Across the road, Roaring Creek...
Let’s Take a Hike, August 2023: Ruby-throated Hummingbirds
View the August 2023 Nature Friend Magazine Female Ruby-throated Hummingbird feeding young. Photo © Kevin Shank.
From the Editor’s Quill, August 2023
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End of the Trail, August 2023: Ruby-throated Hummingbird
View the August 2023 Nature Friend Magazine Juvenile Ruby-throated Hummingbird. Photo © Cheryl Shank.
Study Guide Puzzles, August 2023
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Hummingbirds on the Wing
View the August 2023 Nature Friend Study Guide Ruby-throated Hummingbird. Photo © Kevin Shank. When my wife and I moved into our home in the foothills of the Shenandoah Mountains, Ruby-throated...
Rubies in the Garden
View the June 2023 Nature Friend Magazine Male Ruby-throated Hummingbird preening. Photo © Alva Steury. Bzzzzz. The tiny bird landed on the wire tomato cage, merely 18 inches (45 cm) in front of me,...
Creation Close-ups, April 2023: Bahama Woodstar
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Pictures & Poems, March 2023
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Spring Migration Photo Contest Grand Prize
Female Anna's Hummingbird. Photo © G. Allen Gustafson.
Spring Migration Photo Contest Honorable Mentions
Least Bittern. Photo © Peter Shirk, 16. Barn Swallow. Photo © Alva Steury Jr. Rufous Hummingbird. Photo © Alvin Clair Auker. Great Blue Heron. Photo © Gabriel Schneider. Pileated Woodpecker. Photo ©...
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...
