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Birding by Beginners

Birding by Beginners

Jul 1, 2024

Sharing Birding Contest Grand Prize Winner View the full issue in the Magazine Archive American Robin. Photo © Robert Frazer. My husband and I are not birders. Thanks in part to Nature Friend, some...

Bluebird Summer

Bluebird Summer

Apr 1, 2024

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...

Month of March Artwork Winners

Month of March Artwork Winners

Mar 4, 2024

View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Grand Prize Artwork © Caleb Miller. First Place Artwork © John Mark Ramer. Second Place Artwork © Esther Jones. Third Place Artwork © Nathaniel...

I’m Hungry!!!!

I’m Hungry!!!!

Oct 1, 2023

Juvenile American Robin. Photo © Kristen Stombaugh. “CHIRP! . . . CHIRP!”What kind of bird sounds like that? I wondered.I was in waist-high grass a couple of yards from an electric fence when I...

What a Splashing Success!

What a Splashing Success!

Nov 1, 2022

Wood Duck drake swimming. Photo © Cheryl Shank. Slowly, quietly, yet steadily, I crept along, my binoculars in hand. Surely I can sneak in here without some duck, goose, or beaver announcing their...

A Week by the Creek

A Week by the Creek

Sep 1, 2022

Stream and wild lupines. Photo © Dreamstime.com. With a last cautious effort, the sun finally peeked over the eastern horizon. Gaining confidence, it rose fully, flooding the earth with its warmth...