Excerpts from the Spring Migration 2025 contest.
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Team Hawk Bird List
Check out the 304 species recorded by Team Hawk!
Team Owl Bird List
Check out the 322 species recorded by the winning Team Owl!
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…
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.
One-In-a-Hole
Strong, gusty winds moved through our area early on Good Friday morning, even bringing a skiff of snow before daylight.After lunch, my son David, grandson Paul, and I hiked to the golf course that...
“Look, There’s an Eagle!”
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Brant. Photo © Carolyn Difrancesco|Dreamstime.com. The November morning dawned cool and gray as we drove the last several miles to our destination of...
Eagles? Maybe Not…
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Sharing Birding Contest Honorable Mention Bald Eagle. Photo © Leah Zimmerman. It was Friday. Finally the day had arrived! At 6:40 a.m. Grandma Elsasser...
Sharing Friendship
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Sharing Birding Contest Honorable Mention As I’m the only birder in our family, I’ve often wondered what a birding spree would be like with my siblings....
Our Share of the Birding
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Sharing Birding Contest Third Place Winner Clutching my almost brand-new binoculars, I slipped down the porch steps to join the trio on the drive. A...
Math Is 4 the Birds
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Sharing Birding Contest Third Place Winner My ten-year-old brother and I had an agreement. He would finish his math before a certain time five school days...
Excerpts from the Sharing Birding Contest
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Editor’s note:We gathered up your story submissions, all one hundred or so, and headed to the Shenandoah National Park (two different days). Bethany read...
Our Crane Creek Birding Expedition
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Sharing Birding Contest Second Place Winner Our big white van turned into a long gravel lane with a sign ushering us to Crane Creek in Ohio. My brothers...
Learning Together
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Sharing Birding Contest First Place Winner Finsch's Wheatear. Photo © Shutterstock.com. I stared at the birding contest announcement. Ideas began to roll...
Birding by Beginners
Sharing Birding Contest Grand Prize Winner View the full issue in the Magazine Archive American Robin. Photo © Robert Frazer. My husband and I are not birders. Thanks in part to Nature Friend, some...