View the November 2023 Nature Friend Study Guide Pine Warbler. Photo © Weston Martin, Greencastle, PA. Photo © Peter Shirk, New Columbia, PA. Eastern lubber grasshopper. Photo © Abigail Russell,...
Warblers
Focus Illustrated and Favorite Focus, September 2023
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You Can Draw a Yellow Warbler Submissions
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To Hear a Kentucky
View the July 2023 Nature Friend Magazine By mid-June most of our warblers are feeding young, quietly flitting about gathering food. Except for early in the day, their songs are few and far...
You Can Draw a Yellow Warbler
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Creation Close-ups, March 2023: Leucistic Warbler
This Morning was the “Tomorrow”
View the February 2023 Nature Friend Study Guide MacGillivray's Warbler. Photo © Kevin Shank. You may remember “The Photo Focus” in January ended with the sentence, “Plus, there is tomorrow.” Well,...
Favorite Focus, February 2023
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Winter Warbler Wonder
View the January Nature Friend Magazine MacGillivray's Warbler. Photo © Cheryl Shank. I reread the checklist comments: “Potential MacGillivray’s or COWA/MOWA…Found and photographed better the next...
What We Learned Yesterday
View the January Nature Friend Study Guide This is the result from my first effort. The camera was handheld. Photo © Kevin Shank. “The bird must be here,” I stated to the family as we approached the...
You Can Draw a Blackburnian Warbler Submissions
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Big Day Birding
Canada Warbler. Photo © Dogwood Ridge. On May 13, 2022, my brother and I, along with five others, joined my grandfather on a big day birding trip. My grandfather, Andrew Troyer, keeps an annual big...
Study Guide Puzzles, October 2022
Bird Day
Prothonotary Warbler. Photo © Dogwood Ridge. The adventure started at dawn. The young birders still slept. The lovely smell of honeysuckle braced the morning. As the early rain squall dripped to...
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...
