Nature Nugget Contest
All kinds of fun stories happen “out there” in the world of nature. And, sometimes a person doesn’t even have to go “out there.” Do you remember back to 2018 when Grandpa Markley encountered a bear in his cabin? He whacked it with a folding chair only to have it turn on him. As he backed down the hall with the bear coming after him, teeth clacking, he whacked the bear a second time—this time on the nose. Only then did it turn and flee out of the cabin.
How many more of you have a “This happened to me (us, grandpa, the dog)” story? Or, perhaps you have observed a fun nature nugget of some other sort. (Bethany and I once saw a hawk catch a snake among rocks in mid-November while we were hunting.) In either case, we want to hear about it.
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Spring Birding 2025 Contest
Many birds are migrating through. How many species can our Nature Friend subscriber family spy? Let’s have some birding fun and find out.
We are going to split into two teams. We want to see if Team Hawk or Team Owl can spy the most. You will be part of a team, but you won’t know which team until the results are published. So, when you and your cousins go birding together, each of you recording your observations, you do not know if your entries will be on the same team or opposite teams. So get together and have fun.
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