Warblers

Creation Close-ups, March 2023: Leucistic Warbler

Mar 1, 2023

This Morning was the “Tomorrow”

Feb 1, 2023

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

Feb 1, 2023

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Winter Warbler Wonder

Jan 1, 2023

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

Jan 1, 2023

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

Dec 1, 2022

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Big Day Birding

Oct 1, 2022

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

Oct 1, 2022

Migrating Marvels

Sep 1, 2022

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher. Photo © Dreamstime.com. I shivered as the damp wind whistled through my shirt, and I stared unbelievingly through my binoculars at the bird resting on the branch in front...

My Wonderful Adventure

Sep 1, 2022

Blue-winged Warbler. Photo © Dogwood Ridge. Before I started my twenty-four-hour birding adventure, I knelt beside our creek and looked into the water. As I did, I prayed for a successful birding...

Bird Day

Sep 1, 2022

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

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...