by Judah Yoder | Nov 1, 2022 | 2022, 11 November, Articles & Stories, Birds, Cardinals, Tanagers, & Allies, Gamebirds, Herons, Egrets, & Bitterns, Thrushes, Waterfowl - Geese, Swans, Ducks, Loons, Grebes
View the November 2022 Nature Friend Magazine Wood Duck drake swimming. Photo © Cheryl Shank. Slowly, quietly, yet steadily, I crept along, my binoculars in hand. Surely I can sneak in here without some duck, goose, or beaver announcing their displeasure at my...
by Mary Ella and John Mark Ramer | Sep 1, 2022 | 2022, 09 September, Articles & Stories, Birds, Plants & Fungi, Water Life, Waterfowl - Geese, Swans, Ducks, Loons, Grebes, Wildflowers
Marsh with wild phlox. Photo © Dogwood Ridge. The twists and turns of the Big Spring are a water-life paradise. Flowing, rippling watercress and waving mosses grow in the waters. The clear “ok-a-ree!” of the Red-winged Blackbird wafts frequently from the cattail...
by Kevin Shank | Aug 1, 2022 | 2022, 08 August, Articles & Stories, Birds, Contest
You folks knocked it out of the ballpark this time. It would have been easier to assign ten first place awards than to assign one grand prize, one first place, one second place, etc. What was I thinking when I made up the rules!? I should have just said there will be...
by Joanna Rufener | Aug 1, 2022 | 2022, 08 August, Articles & Stories, Birds, Contest, Crustaceans & Mollusks, Mammals, Waterfowl - Geese, Swans, Ducks, Loons, Grebes
Water Workshop Grand Prize Woodland pond. Photo © Joanna Rufener. What goes on day and night at a calm, wooded pond in spring?It was a mystery to me, and this year I found out, thanks to Nature Friend’s Water Workshop. I wasn’t expecting half of the excitement.Less...
by Kevin Shank | Feb 2, 2022
Some like flowers, some like trees,Some like beetles, some like bees,Some like birds, some like bugs,Some like animals, but none like slugs. So here are the rules. Choose a body of water—it can be a lake, a pond, a stream, a swamp—and write a fun story about your...
