by Kevin Shank | Sep 1, 2023 | 2023, 09 September, Birds, Hummingbirds, Let's Take a Hike
View the September 2023 Nature Friend Magazine Ruby-throated Hummingbird nest. Photo © Kevin Shank. We had barely finished photographing the nest featured in the August issue, when Cheryl spotted this nest at our home. Mom was still incubating the eggs.Our gum tree is...
by Kevin Shank | Sep 1, 2023 | 2023, 09 September, Bears, Bees & Flies, Birds, Butterflies, Moths & Skippers, Favorite Focus, Flycatchers, Focus Illustrated, Hummingbirds, Insects & Arachnids, Mammals, Study Guide, The Photo Focus, Warblers
View the August 2023 Nature Friend Study Guide
by Kevin Shank | Aug 1, 2023 | 2023, 08 August, Birds, End of the Trail, Hummingbirds
View the August 2023 Nature Friend Magazine Juvenile Ruby-throated Hummingbird. Photo © Cheryl Shank.
by Kevin Shank | Aug 1, 2023 | 2023, 08 August, Articles & Stories, Birds, Hummingbirds, Study Guide, The Photo Focus
View the August 2023 Nature Friend Study Guide Ruby-throated Hummingbird. Photo © Kevin Shank. When my wife and I moved into our home in the foothills of the Shenandoah Mountains, Ruby-throated Hummingbirds soon became regular visitors to our feeders. Both Bethany and...
by Kevin Shank | Aug 1, 2023 | 2023, 08 August, Birds, Focus Illustrated, Study Guide, The Photo Focus
View the August 2023 Nature Friend Study Guide
by Kevin Shank | Aug 1, 2023 | 2023, 08 August, Birds, Butterflies, Moths & Skippers, Covers, Hummingbirds, Insects & Arachnids
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by Kevin Shank | Aug 1, 2023 | 2023, 08 August, Articles & Stories, Birds, Butterflies, Moths & Skippers, Hummingbirds, Insects & Arachnids
View the August 2023 Nature Friend Magazine Ruby-throated Hummingbird nest. Photo © Kevin Shank. I perched on scaffolding, twenty feet above a quiet country road. Across the road, Roaring Creek slipped and slid, curved and churned its way to the Atlantic. Before me...
by Kevin Shank | Aug 1, 2023 | 2023, 08 August, Birds, Hummingbirds, Let's Take a Hike
View the August 2023 Nature Friend Magazine Female Ruby-throated Hummingbird feeding young. Photo © Kevin Shank.
by Alva Steury Jr. | Jun 1, 2023 | 2023, 06 June Readers' Issue, Articles & Stories, Birds, Hummingbirds
View the June 2023 Nature Friend Magazine Male Ruby-throated Hummingbird preening. Photo © Alva Steury. Bzzzzz. The tiny bird landed on the wire tomato cage, merely 18 inches (45 cm) in front of me, his tiny gorget feathers flashing ruby red in the warm evening...
by Kevin Shank | Apr 1, 2023 | 2023, 04 April, Birds, Gamebirds, Hummingbirds, Plants & Fungi, Wildflowers
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by Kevin Shank | Mar 1, 2023 | 2023, 03 March, Art Contest, Birds, Blackbirds, Orioles, Meadowlarks, Contest, Herons, Egrets, & Bitterns, Hummingbirds, Owls, Pictures and Poems, Shorebirds, Stilts and Avocets, Waterfowl - Geese, Swans, Ducks, Loons, Grebes
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by Kevin Shank | Jul 1, 2022 | 2022, 07 July, Birds, Blackbirds, Orioles, Meadowlarks, Butterflies, Moths & Skippers, Fish, Hummingbirds, Insects & Arachnids, Pictures and Poems, Wrens
by Kevin Shank | Apr 4, 2022 | 2022, 04 April, Birds, Contest, Hawks, Eagles, & Kites, Hummingbirds
First Place Winner Osprey. Artwork © Dawn Burkholder, 16. Second Place Winner Broad-billed Hummingbirds at cardinal flower. Artwork © Mark Brueggemann, 14. Third Place Winner Ruby-throated Hummingbird. Artwork © Anne Hein, 15. About the Wild Bird Art Contest A big...
by Kevin Shank | Sep 6, 2021 | 2021, 09 September, Birds, Blackbirds, Orioles, Meadowlarks, Favorite Focus, Hummingbirds, Reptiles & Amphibians, Study Guide
See “Focus Illustrated, September 2021, for spider photo mentioned above.
by Gabriel Schneider | May 21, 2021 | 2021, 06, June Readers' Issue, Birds, Hummingbirds, Learning By Doing, Warblers
I really enjoy bird watching. About three years ago we lived in Cheyenne, Wyoming, right along the central major flyway. I was fascinated with the intriguing variety of species that came through our backyard. We now live in the middle of the woods and several hours...
