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Wrens
Some of the Southwestern Wrens
View the December 2022 Nature Friend Magazine Cactus Wren eating cactus fruit. Photo © Jay Pierstorff/Dreamstime.com. In the southern part of California, the climate is dry. Not much rain falls in a...
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...
Pictures & Poems, July 2022
Wild Bird Art Contest Child Winners
First Place Winner Baltimore Oriole. Artwork © Elizabeth Boggs, 12. Second Place Winner Barn Owl. Artwork © Blessing Langham, 12. Third Place Winner House Wren. Artwork © John Mark Ramer, 12. About...
Pictures & Poems, April 2022
You Can Draw a Carolina Wren Submissions
Our Birding Day
Sunday dawned a beautiful morning. The first birds I saw were cardinals—male and female. There were Chipping, English, and House Sparrows at the feeder. Out the kitchen window I saw a Junco and a...
My Day With the Birds
Red-tailed Hawk. Photo © Julian Kreider. When I was looking through the September Nature Friend, I saw the Birding with Friends Contest. I thought it would be interesting to try. I decided to make...
You Can Draw a Carolina Wren
The Tiny Bird With a Big Voice!
Who would’ve thought a House Wren could have such a big mouth? Certainly not me. Surely such a tiny bird couldn’t eke out more than a squeak or two, maybe a quiet warble. I was mistaken…hugely....