2023, 01 January
Turkina
Wild Turkey hen. Photo © Linda Lombardo/Dreamstime.com. My nephew and I were in the field behind our old house, when suddenly he pointed up the field and asked, “What’s that?”I looked in the...
Favorite Focus, January 2023
What We Learned Yesterday
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 parking lot of Lake Shenandoah. Birders...
Camp & Cabin Cookin’, January 2023
Chickens in the Garden
Photo © Natalie Board/Dreamstime.com. In previous articles, we have looked at the importance of underground livestock such as earthworms, nematodes, protozoa, and countless species of bacteria....
Triangulum and Aries
Triangulum and Aries are a pair of small constellations that lie south of Andromeda, between the Great Square of Pegasus and the Pleiades. Triangulum, the Triangle, is the more northerly of the...
Study Guide Puzzles, January 2023
End of the Trail, January 2023: Sunset
Sunset over a swamp. Photo © Sam Cox.
What Bird am I?
Make a Model Motor, Part 3
Caption This Jackrabbit
Black-tailed jackrabbit. Photo © Dreamstime.com. We invite you to submit your caption for this photograph. The photograph will be used on the back of the May issue, along with our choice of a...
The Rosette Nebula
Rosette Nebula. Photo © Morris Yoder. For most observers in the United States at this time of the year, the Rosette Nebula rises in the east at sunset and crosses high in the southern sky, then sets...
In Our Skies, January 2023: Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF)
Comet Neowise 2020. Photo © Cheryl Shank. If you look over a list of the year’s best meteor showers, the Quadrantid meteor shower will likely catch your attention. First, the Quadrantid shower sits...
