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...
2024
Excerpts from the Sharing Birding Contest
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...
Math Is 4 the Birds
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...
Our Share of the Birding
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...
How to Make a Beeswax Candle
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...
End of the Trail, August 2024: Northern Mockingbird
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Northern Mockingbird. Photo © Anastasia Brown.
Study Guide Puzzles, August 2024
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Camp & Cabin Cookin’, August 2024
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Components of a Successful Photo
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...
Favorite Focus, August 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...
Solar Photography
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive The aurora superstorm in May has captured my attention—not just the beauty of the aurora, but the beauty of the sun from which the storm originated. There...
Covers, July 2024
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Let’s Take a Hike, July 2024: AR3664
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Robert Schumann captured this photo of the sun May 13, 2024, showing the famous active region 3664. This region hurled at least six coronal mass ejections...
Birding by Beginners
Sharing Birding Contest Grand Prize Winner View the full issue in the Magazine Archive American Robin. Photo © Robert Frazer. My husband and I are not birders. Thanks in part to Nature Friend, some...
From the Editor’s Quill, July 2024
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