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Nature Notes Guardians invite all readers to submit short stories of nature encounters for publication in its newsletter. Send your material to Pat Wemstrom by the 15th of the month prior to publication. We will publish them as time and space permit.

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Birding Accounts
Stories from our quarterly newsletter, The Guardian Messenger

2009

	Chickadee: Nature's Backyard Charmer Julie Bruser, Winter Issue
	The Thistle Bird Julie Bruser, Summer Issue
	The Brilliant Indigo Bunting Julie Bruser, Spring Issue

2008

	Wondrous Woodpeckers Julie Bruser, Fall Issue
	The Elusive Towhee Julie Bruser, Summer Issue

2006-2007

	Snow Birds by Grace Storch
	A Winter Visitor by Rickie Rachuy

Foreign Birding

	First-time birding in Europe is an exciting prospect. by Rickie Rachuy, September 2006
	To go birdwatching in Turkey seemed like a wonderful idea to us. by Joan and Dick Harmet, December 2006

A Bird in the Hand

Thinking it would be fun to have a bird at my beck and call. by Pat Wemstrom, September 2006.

Spring Birding

We have become a group of friends who love the world around us and being together. by Barb Rutherford, June 2006.

Urban Birding

Outside a construction site. by Joe Bardusk, June 2006.

32-Below-Zero Birding

Birding in Winter: In the North Woods and at Lost Mound. by Pat Wemstrom, Spring 2005.

Backyard Birding

They could follow a grebe’s path as he dove, surfaced and dove again. by Chuck Wemstrom, Winter 2005.