by Izzy Hass | May 1, 2023 | 2023, 05 May Story Contest, Articles & Stories, Astronomy, Meteors
View the May 2023 Nature Friend Magazine Meteor. Photo © Dreamstime.com. It was late in the day when I remembered. Weeks before, I had checked our November Nature Friend. The Geminid meteor shower was tonight.I had never seen a “shooting star,” and I didn’t really...
by Kevin Shank | Feb 1, 2023 | 2023, 02 February, Astronomy, Birds, Contest, Hawks, Eagles, & Kites, Insects & Arachnids, Mailbox, Meteors, Plants & Fungi, Trees
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by Kevin Shank | Nov 1, 2022 | 2022, 11 November, Articles & Stories, Astronomy, From the Editor's Quill, Meteors, Puzzle, Scavenger Hunt
View the November 2022 Nature Friend Magazine
by Anna Boggs, Rural Retreat, VA | Nov 1, 2022 | 2022, 11 November, Articles & Stories, Astronomy, Meteors
View the November 2022 Nature Friend Magazine Geminid meteor shower. Photo © Dreamstime.com. The December night was clear and bitterly cold. The freezing winter air burned my lungs as I stepped outside shortly after 10:00 p.m. Expectantly, I turned my face to the sky...
by Kevin Shank | Jul 1, 2022 | 2022, 07 July, Articles & Stories, Astronomy, Beetles, Birds, Cuckoos, Flycatchers, Insects & Arachnids, Meteors, Nightjars, Warblers
Bolide with Tau Herculid meteor shower and fireflies. Photo © Cheryl Shank. I didn’t know birds talk in their sleep, but they surely must. About 12:30 a.m. an Ovenbird began to talk. Before long, a Yellow-billed Cuckoo made some comments of his own, too, and he kept...
by Kevin Shank | Jul 1, 2022 | 2022, 07 July, Astronomy, Beetles, End of the Trail, Insects & Arachnids, Meteors
Photos © Cheryl Shank.
by Freeman J. Martin, 9 | Feb 8, 2022 | Articles & Stories, Astronomy, Constellations, Contest, Meteors, Nature Nugget
In August, Dad decided to take the family to Cherry Springs Park in Pennsylvania, which has the darkest night sky east of the Mississippi River. We ventured out with food, binoculars, tents, our telescope, and a borrowed one.When we got to our destination, we were...
by Swena Newswanger, 15 | Feb 8, 2022 | 2022, 02 February, Articles & Stories, Astronomy, Contest, Meteors
Here in upstate New York, autumn was long and beautiful. This is December already, and some days are warm enough that even the bees decide to fly. But the other night something else was flying which aroused my interest and required me to lose some sleep.After making...
by Jason Rinehart | Jan 10, 2022 | 2022, 01 January, Articles & Stories, Astronomy, End of the Trail, Meteors, Satellites
SpaceX launch and fireball. Photo © Jason Rinehart. The skies were dark from the Pine Tree overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia. I had come here on Wednesday, November 10, 2021, to photograph the SpaceX, Falcon 9 rocket launch. The launch was to occur from...
