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Birding by Beginners
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...
Focus Illustrated and Favorite Focus, May 2024
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Creation Close-ups, May 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...
Pictures & Poems, April 2024
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Month of March Artwork Winners
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...
My Chosen Spot Illustrated
My Chosen Spot Contest Honorable Mention
I’m Hungry!!!!
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...
Favorite Focus, August 2023
Let’s Take a Hike, July 2023: Eastern Bluebird
Eastern Bluebird. Photo © Anna Boggs.
Wildflower Art Contest Honorable Mentions
Moonflower. Artwork © Emily Hulbert. Red-winged Blackbird on cattails. Artwork © John Mark Ramer. Dogwood Dawn. Artwork © Hannah Stoltzfus.
What a Splashing Success!
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
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...
