Photos from the Spring Birding Contest 2025!
Issues
Let’s Take a Hike, August 2025: Common Yellowthroat
Enjoy this photo from our Spring Birding Contest 2025!
For the Birds
I decided this would be a good day to start our bird search. It was surprising how many birds there were when we began to focus on seeing them…
From the Editor’s Quill, August 2025
Some of you commented on how many birds there are all around us, once we set our minds to thinking about them. Just how many there are still boggles my mind…
Invisibles, August 2025: Arctic Ground Squirrel
Find the objects hidden in this Arctic ground squirrel drawing!
Spring Birding 2025 Participants
Which were you—Team Owl or Team Hawk?
Team Owl Bird List
Check out the 322 species recorded by the winning Team Owl!
Team Hawk Bird List
Check out the 304 species recorded by Team Hawk!
Wondernose: What animal can only walk backwards?
Before we go any farther, I will add another hint for our riddle: the word “lion” is included in this animal’s name…
Mailbox, August 2025
Excerpts from the Spring Migration 2025 contest.
Pictures & Poems, August 2025
Enjoy our readers’ artwork submissions from the August issue.
You Can Draw a Mockingbird Submissions
Children’s submissions for You Can Draw a Mockingbird lesson.
You Can Draw a House Wren
In six steps, you can draw a House Wren too!
Nice-looking Weeds? In the Flower Beds?
I like weeds—for good reason I think. It’s because I see so many incredibly interesting things when I’m among the weeds. But the problem is, I like the looks of weeded flower beds and garden…
The Silent Dance of the Luna Moth
On a peaceful spring evening, as the sun descended behind the towering maples and oaks of Pennsylvania’s deciduous forest, I witnessed one of nature’s most enchanting displays…