by Kevin Shank | Apr 1, 2023 | 2023, 04 April, Art Contest, Birds, Contest, Covers, Plants & Fungi, Wildflowers, Woodpeckers
View the April 2023 Nature Friend Magazine Pileated Woodpecker. Photo © Lois Tschetter.
by Lois Tschetter | Apr 1, 2023 | 2023, 04 April, Articles & Stories, Birds, The Birders' Trail, Woodpeckers
View the April 2023 Nature Friend Magazine Pileated Woodpecker. Photo © Lois Tschetter. Spring is returning to the North. We know because it’s April—late April, in fact. But the scene out the window doesn’t support the spring-is-coming theory much. A howling wind is...
by Kevin Shank | Feb 1, 2023 | 2023, 02 February, Birds, Woodpeckers, You Can Draw Lesson, You Can Draw, Submissions
View the February 2023 Nature Friend Magazine
by Dawn Burkholder | Oct 1, 2022 | 2022, 10 October Bonus Readers' Issue, Birds, Woodpeckers, You Can Draw Lesson
by David Allgyer | Sep 1, 2022 | 2022, 09 September, Articles & Stories, Birds, Warblers, Woodpeckers
Prothonotary Warbler. Photo © Dogwood Ridge. The adventure started at dawn. The young birders still slept. The lovely smell of honeysuckle braced the morning. As the early rain squall dripped to quiet stillness, a green blur shot around the corner of the brick house...
by Ezra Looy | Sep 1, 2022 | 2022, 09 September, Articles & Stories, Birds, Contest, Finches, Crossbills, & Grosbeaks, Hawks, Eagles, & Kites, Nuthatches, Owls, Warblers, Woodpeckers, Wrens
Blue-winged Warbler. Photo © Dogwood Ridge. Before I started my twenty-four-hour birding adventure, I knelt beside our creek and looked into the water. As I did, I prayed for a successful birding day, and I thanked God for the opportunity to do this contest.To start,...
by Kevin Shank | Aug 1, 2022 | 2022, 08 August, Birds, Contest, Herons, Egrets, & Bitterns, Hummingbirds, Shorebirds, Swallows, Warblers, Woodpeckers
Least Bittern. Photo © Peter Shirk, 16. Barn Swallow. Photo © Alva Steury Jr. Rufous Hummingbird. Photo © Alvin Clair Auker. Great Blue Heron. Photo © Gabriel Schneider. Pileated Woodpecker. Photo © Jarrett Martin. Hairy Woodpecker. Photo © Josiah Olson. Green Heron....
by Kevin Shank | Jul 1, 2022 | 2022, 07 July, Birds, Creation Close-ups, Insects & Arachnids, Reptiles & Amphibians, Spiders, Woodpeckers
by Kevin Shank | Apr 7, 2022 | 2022, 04 April, Birds, Cardinals, Tanagers, & Allies, Favorite Focus, Focus Illustrated, Plants & Fungi, Sparrows, Study Guide, The Photo Focus, Wildflowers, Woodpeckers
by Seth Good, 8 | Mar 3, 2022 | Articles & Stories, Birds, Cardinals, Tanagers, & Allies, Nuthatches, Pigeons & Doves, Sparrows, Thrushes, Waterfowl - Geese, Swans, Ducks, Loons, Grebes, Woodpeckers, Wrens
Sunday dawned a beautiful morning. The first birds I saw were cardinals—male and female. There were Chipping, English, and House Sparrows at the feeder. Out the kitchen window I saw a Junco and a Mourning Dove. At the feeder there were now starlings and Brown-headed...
by Julian D. Kreider, 9 | Mar 2, 2022 | 2022, 03 March, Articles & Stories, Birds, Contest, Crows, Jays, & Magpies, Hawks, Eagles, & Kites, Sparrows, Thrushes, Woodpeckers, Wrens
Red-tailed Hawk. Photo © Julian Kreider. When I was looking through the September Nature Friend, I saw the Birding with Friends Contest. I thought it would be interesting to try. I decided to make my circle in a brushy place on our six-acre property. I picked Monday,...
by Kevin Shank | Oct 30, 2021 | 2021, 11 November, Birds, Mammals, Owls, Pictures and Poems, Reptiles & Amphibians, Woodpeckers
