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Team Owl Bird List
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Mailbox, August 2025
Excerpts from the Spring Migration 2025 contest.
From the Editor’s Quill, July 2025
Reminder: the Nature Nugget contest deadline is approaching!
Of Spies…and Guards
Desperate to protect, the brave, feathered guard rushed at me, its tail fanned wide. I backed off. But I had waited for weeks for this moment! I was determined to get a picture. I edged forward again…
A Storm-lover’s Dream…or Nightmare
I stepped outside to look at the clouds again. They had changed shockingly fast to a sickening yellowish muddy-orange color, and were now almost directly overhead, with the wind from the east and twice as strong as before.
The Mushroom Hunt
“Let’s go on a mushroom hunt!” This crisp day is perfect for hunting mushrooms in our forest. I fill a cardboard box with knives, bowls, pens, paper, and, most importantly, our mushroom guide.
Ransacked!
Someone or something seemed to be sabotaging our efforts to create an arrangement of colorful flora. Yesterday, my brother’s petunias had vanished, and today, my sister’s violets were the victims. So far, my flowerpot had remained untouched—but for how long?
Creation Close-ups, April 2025
Trails and Tales contest honorable mention photos
Pictures & Poems, April 2025
Trails and Tails Contest First Place Art Winner + honorable mention art and writing
In the Heart of My Tree
Nature enchants me.
But I am not a birder.
Nor a stargazer.
Nor a leaf-ologist.
I looked for poetry
in all of these.
I was eluded.
And then I found it—
a charming cadence—
In the Heart of My Tree
End of the Trail, April 2025
Trails and Tales Contest Photo Second Place Winner
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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....