Sharing Birding

Sharing Friendship

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....

Eagles? Maybe Not…

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...

Learning Together

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...

Our Crane Creek Birding Expedition

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...

Excerpts from the Sharing Birding Contest

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...

Math Is 4 the Birds

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...

Our Share of the Birding

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...

Birding by Beginners

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...