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Favorite Focus, August 2024

Favorite Focus, August 2024

Aug 1, 2024

View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Daisies at sunset. Josiah Andring. Northern Mockingbird. Photo © Thomas Zimmerman. This mockingbird is a gorgeous example of separation lighting in a...

Components of a Successful Photo

Components of a Successful Photo

Aug 1, 2024

View the full issue in the Magazine Archive What does it take for a photograph to be successful? That is a question that doesn’t have any one right answer. If you were able to capture a poor picture...

How to Make a Beeswax Candle

How to Make a Beeswax Candle

Aug 1, 2024

View the full issue in the Magazine Archive You Will Need: Electric Crock-Pot (We use one with a removable insert.) Two waxed cardboard containers Filter (We use a piece of T-shirt material.) Candle...

Our Share of the Birding

Our Share of the Birding

Aug 1, 2024

View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Sharing Birding Contest Third Place Winner Clutching my almost brand-new binoculars, I slipped down the porch steps to join the trio on the drive. A...

Math Is 4 the Birds

Math Is 4 the Birds

Aug 1, 2024

View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Sharing Birding Contest Third Place Winner My ten-year-old brother and I had an agreement. He would finish his math before a certain time five school days...

Excerpts from the Sharing Birding Contest

Excerpts from the Sharing Birding Contest

Aug 1, 2024

View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Editor’s note:We gathered up your story submissions, all one hundred or so, and headed to the Shenandoah National Park (two different days). Bethany read...

You Can Draw an American Redstart

You Can Draw an American Redstart

Aug 1, 2024

View the full issue in the Magazine Archive This lively little warbler often catches insects on the wing like flycatchers. But it also zips around bushes, leaves; here, there, tumbling around twigs...

Sagittarius

Sagittarius

Aug 1, 2024

View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Sagittarius, the Archer, lies straight above the southern horizon on August evenings at mid-northern latitudes. The band of the Milky Way runs through the...