by Karen Mast, 17 | Aug 1, 2022 | 2022, 08 August, Articles & Stories, Birds, Contest, Herons, Egrets, & Bitterns, Nightjars, Shorebirds, Sparrows, Warblers, Woodpeckers
Spring Migration Bird Contest 1st Place
by Mary Miller | Jun 3, 2022 | 2022, 06 June Readers' Issue, Articles & Stories, Birds, Owls, Plants & Fungi, Shorebirds
Great Horned Owlets. Photo © Kevin Shank. My sister Malinda and I teach in a school in northern Indiana. One evening last spring, we visited one of the school families. We knew they often went back to the swamp beyond their neighbor’s woods to watch the woodcocks in...
by Galen Williams, 17 | May 1, 2022 | 2022, 05 May Story Contest, Articles & Stories, Birds, Contest, Shorebirds, Story Contest, Warblers
American Woodcock. Photo © Kevin Shank. The second week of May came, and so did the warblers and other migrating species. I had spring fever. Spring, Galen, warblers—all three—go hand in hand, so off I launched toward the closest woods. A good neighbor owned the woods...
by Kevin Shank | Mar 2, 2022 | 2022, 03 March, Articles & Stories, Birds, Cranes, Exploring Nature, Gamebirds, Mammals, Plants & Fungi, Shorebirds
Snow trillium. Photo © Kevin Shank. Snow trilliums bloom mid-March to early April. This trillium was photographed near Franklin, West Virginia, March 21.Sharp-tailed Grouse are displaying on leks.View the Sandhill Crane migration in the Platte River Valley in...
