Puffin rescue…migrations… August nature highlights.
Issues
Mammals of North America
Test your mammal knowledge!
End of the Trail, August 2025: Cedar Waxwing
A moment in the life of a beautiful Cedar Waxwing.
Study Guide Puzzles, August 2025
Complete the acrostic and learn the name of the smallest species of giant silk moth!
Using a Small-animal Studio
The frisky little chipmunk paused by a log to eat a morsel of food. From only two or three feet away, I was clicking photos of the rambunctious chipmunk!
My Garden Bench
Little did I know that the broken swing seat would become one of my favorite garden features ever…
Camp & Cabin Cookin’, August 2025
Bacon-wrapped Chicken…Mom’s Macaroni Salad…Okra Brownies…Grasshopper Pie
Creating a 3-D Resin Bloom
Today, we’re going to create a burgundy resin flower suspended in a clear resin coaster…
Favorite Focus, August 2025
Check out our readers’ favorite photos from the past month!
Ophichus
Ophiuchus is a large constellation that lies high in the southern sky on midsummer evenings…
Covers, July 2025
What is this pika doing? Check out “Don’t Be an Alpine Giant…” for the answer!
Rare Ross’s
Would it still be there? We were on the road again chasing a rare bird. As always, the closer you get, the more afraid you are it has left.
From the Editor’s Quill, July 2025
Reminder: the Nature Nugget contest deadline is approaching!
Invisibles, July 2025: Mountain Goat
Find the objects hidden in this mountain goat drawing!
Don’t Be an Alpine Giant…
I’d recommend you not being the tallest giant around in the afternoon, and maybe skip crawling into a mountain lion’s lair….