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Woodpeckers
Spring Brings the Birds
View the June 2023 Nature Friend Magazine Ladder-backed Woodpecker. Photo © Josephine Dyck. Melodious notes herald the coming of spring at my home in western Texas. Doves, grackles, meadowlarks,...
Covers, April 2023
View the April 2023 Nature Friend Magazine Pileated Woodpecker. Photo © Lois Tschetter.
Spring in the North
View the April 2023 Nature Friend Magazine Pileated Woodpecker. Photo © Lois Tschetter. Spring is returning to the North. We know because it’s April—late April, in fact. But the scene out the window...
You Can Draw a Pileated Woodpecker Submissions
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Building a Weight-triggered Perch
View the December Nature Friend Study Guide Chipping Sparrow. Photo © Austin Vinar. When trying to photograph skittish birds at my feeder, I’ve often thought, Wouldn’t it be nice to have a trail...
Pictures and Poems, October 2022
You Can Draw a Pileated Woodpecker
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...
My Wonderful Adventure
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...
Spring Migration Photo Contest Honorable Mentions
Least Bittern. Photo © Peter Shirk, 16. Barn Swallow. Photo © Alva Steury Jr. Rufous Hummingbird. Photo © Alvin Clair Auker. Great Blue Heron. Photo © Gabriel Schneider. Pileated Woodpecker. Photo ©...
The Day and the Crown
Spring Migration Bird Contest 1st Place