View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Owls are a fascinating family of birds. Most of them hunt at night and roost in some secluded spot during daylight hours. They are often heard but seldom...
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Pictures & Poems, April 2024
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Wondernose: What bird excavates holes by hammering its beak into the soil?
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Oops there, Wondernose. You didn’t listen carefully to my riddle if you think the woodpecker is the answer. Woodpeckers make holes in wood by hammering...
Creation Close-ups, April 2024
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Bluebird Summer
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Eastern Bluebird. Photo © Steve Byland/Dreamstime.com. One beautiful spring morning, I noticed a pair of bluebirds checking out the wren house on our...
You Can Draw a Cardinal Submissions
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You Can Draw a Bufflehead
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Exploring Nature, April 2024
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Just as farmers are hoping the spring dries up enough to get into the fields to mow hay, morel hunters are hoping for alternating rain and sunshine to...
Building a Stone Cottage Bird Feeder
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Bird Feeder Contest Winners
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Photographing Owls in Flight
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Eastern Screech-Owl catching a mouse. Photo © Dogwood Ridge. Only a few minutes had passed, and already a screech owl had flown over our setup. From their...
Favorite Focus and Focus Illustrated, April 2024
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Favorite Focus, March 2024
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Yesterday afternoon at The Wilds was cold…bitterly cold. Although the thermometer showed several degrees warmer than yesterday, the stout wind made this...
Log Cabin Bird Feeder
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Bird Feeder Contest First Place Winner Here are the instructions and photos of the bird feeder that my brother Jeffery Schrock built for your contest....
Exploring Nature, March 2024
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Woodcocks are doing their courtship displays. Listen for their loud peenting or beeping at dusk on warm evenings. Grizzlies come out of hibernation in mid...