Enjoy our readers’ artwork submissions from the August issue.
Birds
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Covers, August 2025
Photos from the Spring Birding Contest 2025!
Let’s Take a Hike, August 2025: Common Yellowthroat
Enjoy this photo from our Spring Birding Contest 2025!
Favorite Focus, August 2025
Check out our readers’ favorite photos from the past month!
You Can Draw a Mockingbird Submissions
Children’s submissions for You Can Draw a Mockingbird lesson.
End of the Trail, August 2025: Cedar Waxwing
A moment in the life of a beautiful Cedar Waxwing.
You Can Draw a House Wren
In six steps, you can draw a House Wren too!
Exploring Nature, August 2025
Puffin rescue…migrations… August nature highlights.
Pictures & Poems, July 2025
Children’s drawings and poetry from the June issue.
Exploring Nature, July 2025
What are noctilucent clouds? Nature highlights for July!
Focus Illustrated and Favorite Focus, July 2025
Check out our readers’ favorite photos from the past month!
Creation Close-ups, July 2025
Readers’ photo submissions from the June issue.
Rare Ross’s
Would it still be there? We were on the road again chasing a rare bird. As always, the closer you get, the more afraid you are it has left.
Don’t Be an Alpine Giant…
I’d recommend you not being the tallest giant around in the afternoon, and maybe skip crawling into a mountain lion’s lair….
Mailbox, July 2025
Whooping Cranes?! Read the July letters to the editor.















