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Kingfishers
Pictures & Poems, July 2023
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The Belted Kingfisher
View the May 2023 Nature Friend Magazine Belted Kingfisher at nest. Photos © Marlene Burkholder. One sunny May morning, I saw two kingfishers! I assumed they were just flying around and wouldn’t...
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...
Birding Along the Linville Creek
Spring Migration Bird Contest Second Place Linville Creek. Photo © Dogwood Ridge. The clock read 11:30 a.m. I was curled up on the couch flipping through the latest issue of Nature Friend, when the...
Pictures & Poems, June 2022
“Our Kingfisher?”
It was the beginning of warmer weather, when the changing day length tells birds to begin their migration back north.This is a time that my family looks forward to, not only because we enjoy the...
The Comical Kingfisher
Silently I walked through the trees, toward the lake. On the shore stood a bird-watching blind. I stepped inside and sat down to watch. A male Belted Kingfisher leaving its nest. Photo © Kevin Shank...
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.
