110 Things to See With a Telescope. Thundersnows. Read the April letters to the editor.
2025, 04 April
Favorite Focus, April 2025
View our readers’ favorite photos from the past month!
Camp & Cabin Cookin’, April 2025
Breakfast Casserole Bake… Delicious Tomato Soup… Ten-Minute Breadsticks… Homemade Punch
Study Guide Puzzles, April 2025
Reinforce nature facts from the April issue with the Study Guide puzzles!
End of the Trail, April 2025
Trails and Tales Contest Photo Second Place Winner
Slippery Salamander Quiz
Can you reach the end? Learn interesting facts along the way!
Exploring Nature, April 2025
Morels…migrations…and more. Nature highlights for April!
In the Heart of My Tree
Nature enchants me.
But I am not a birder.
Nor a stargazer.
Nor a leaf-ologist.
I looked for poetry
in all of these.
I was eluded.
And then I found it—
a charming cadence—
In the Heart of My Tree
You Can Draw a Mockingbird
In five steps, you can draw a Northern Mockingbird too!
You Can Draw a White-breasted Nuthatch Submissions
Children’s submissions for You Can Draw a White-breasted Nuthatch lesson.
Western Hydra
Hydra holds a diverse array of telescopic targets. The constellation contains several beautiful double stars, as well as a fairly bright planetary nebula, a globular star cluster, a bright open star cluster, and a fine barred spiral galaxy…
Pictures & Poems, April 2025
Trails and Tails Contest First Place Art Winner + honorable mention art and writing
Wondernose: What tree has dead bark that’s very useful to man?
Ordinarily, dead bark would be the part of a tree left rotting in the woods after the valuable parts have been harvested. Not so with our mystery tree. The bark gets harvested, and the rest of the tree is left standing!
Creation Close-ups, April 2025
Trails and Tales contest honorable mention photos
Ransacked!
Someone or something seemed to be sabotaging our efforts to create an arrangement of colorful flora. Yesterday, my brother’s petunias had vanished, and today, my sister’s violets were the victims. So far, my flowerpot had remained untouched—but for how long?