2023, 03 March

Capture the Splash

Capture the Splash

Photographing Water Splashes with Minimal Equipment View the March 2023 Nature Friend Study Guide Water droplets. Photo © Anna Boggs. Utterly bored, I stared out at the blinding snow until my eyes...

The Swimming Toads

The Swimming Toads

View the March 2023 Nature Friend Magazine American toad singing. Photo © Kevin Shank. Once upon a Good Friday evening, I, with my family, which consists of four brothers and two sisters and Dad and...

Stronger Than Steel

Stronger Than Steel

View the March 2023 Nature Friend Magazine Garden spider. Photo © Wayne Mckown/Dreamstime.com. We arrived home from a ten-day trip to an invasion of grasshoppers. With each step we took, a cloud of...

Wise As a Serpent

Wise As a Serpent

View the March 2023 Nature Friend Magazine I glanced out the kitchen window one Monday morning. What was hanging out of the sparrow trap in the brush pile? It looked like a snake.I grabbed my...

Caption This Eastern Screech-Owl

Caption This Eastern Screech-Owl

View the March 2023 Nature Friend Magazine We invite you to submit your caption for this photograph of a parent Eastern Screech-Owl bringing a night crawler to the young. The photograph will be used...

The False Dawn

The False Dawn

View the March 2023 Nature Friend Magazine False dawn. Photo CC-SA 4-0. We consider air to be invisible, but, in reality, it is filled with molecules of air and vapor that fog our vision. When we...

Covers, March 2023

Covers, March 2023

View the March 2023 Nature Friend Magazine Fairy shrimp. Photo © Dogwood Ridge. Ruby-crowned Kinglet eating dogwood berry. Photo © Dogwood Ridge.

It Always Rains on Salamander Night!

It Always Rains on Salamander Night!

View the March 2023 Nature Friend Magazine Spotted Salamander. Photo © Dana Atkinson. “Grandpa,” said George, “why are we going out in the rain? In the DARK?”“Well,” I said, “because tonight is...

Fairyland

Fairyland

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