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April 2016

Your April photos revealed a landscape full of new life. Loons nested, wildflowers bloomed, and a baby porcupine did its best to ignore the presence of an animal tracking group. Vernal pools were full of amphibians – much to a barred owl’s delight – and a mourning cloak butterfly emerged from hibernation. Take that, buckthorn!  Students at Stafford Technical Center worked to enhance habitat at a nature reserve.

We’re now on the hunt for May 2016 photos. We encourage you to share images about anything that relates to the Northeast’s forests, and that you take this month. Here are examples – but by no means an exclusive list – of photo topics that fit this category: nature, weather, education activities (any age), forest management/logging, recreation, wood manufacture, art, workshops, events. As long as it relates in some way to the Northeast’s forests, we’ll consider it.

April 2016 Photo: David Jakubowski
Eastford, CT: Trillium erectum goes by many names (stinking Benjamin, wake-robin, red trillium, wet dog trillium…). It’s a fairly common, and beautiful, forest wildflower. Credit: David Jakubowski | Photo: David Jakubowski
April 2016 Photo: Dan Lovell
Rutland, VT: Students from Stafford Technical Center visit Canopy Timber Alternatives to learn about the log buying business. Credit: Dan Lovell | Photo: Dan Lovell
April 2016 Photo: Sylvia Vidal
Indian Lake, NY: An early spring view of a loon. The birds began returning from the ocean in early April. (You can read more about loon migration in this recent Outside Story article: http://northernwoodlands.org/outside_story/article/april-loons-return). Credit: Sylvia Vidal | Photo: Sylvia Vidal
April 2016 Photo: David Gomeau
Augusta, ME: A loon on the nest. “Maine beauty.” Credit: David Gomeau | Photo: David Gomeau
April 2016 Photo: Lucille Johnston
Abbott, ME: “Reflection of Vic crossing a beaver dam on April 30, 2016 by the Piscataquis River… during a Connecting with Nature woodlands walk.” Credit: Lucille Johnston | Photo: Lucille Johnston
April 2016 Photo: Mary Jane Grace
Moretown, VT: “Osprey arrived shortly after little pond was stocked with trout.” Credit: Mary Jane Grace | Photo: Mary Jane Grace
April 2016 Photo: Tig Tillinghast
Thetford, VT: A close study of a spotted salamander larva, still inside its egg. Credit: Tig Tillinghast | Photo: Tig Tillinghast
April 2016 Photo: Susan Lichty
Lempster, NH: A close study of frog eggs. April’s vernal pools were full of these masses (and are now teeming with tadpoles). Credit: Susan Lichty | Photo: Susan Lichty
April 2016 Photo: Josh Blouin
Montpelier, VT: “Maple syrup colors at Morse Sugar Works.” Credit: Josh Blouin | Photo: Josh Blouin
April 2016 Photo: Michelle Hansen
Evans Notch, ME: A fly romance. Credit: Michelle Hansen | Photo: Michelle Hansen
April 2016 Photo: Patricia Liddle
Clarksburg State Park, MA: “Our animal tracking group…came upon this baby porcupine waiting for its mother to come back. It was well protected with its head tucked into a hole at the base of the tree. We scanned the surrounding trees but did not spot the mother.” Credit: Patricia Liddle | Photo: Patricia Liddle
April 2016 Photo: Carolyn Haley
East Wallingford, VT: Early morning turkey courtship. Credit: Carolyn Haley | Photo: Carolyn Haley
April 2016 Photo: David Gomeau
Augusta, ME: “Gray fox in clover.” Credit: David Gomeau | Photo: David Gomeau
April 2016 Photo: John Snell
Montpelier, VT: “Spring run.” Credit: John Snell | Photo: John Snell
April 2016 Photo: Barbara Mackay
Northern VT: “Bringing the outdoors in: twigs from striped maple and sugar maple were snipped in February and stuck in a jar of water on a sunny windowsill. Their buds have now burst open, one revealing a flower (striped maple) and the other a leaf (sugar maple).” Credit: Barbara Mackay | Photo: Barbara Mackay
April 2016 Photo: Teddy W. Hopkins
Readsboro, VT: Guardian of the patch cut? Stone giant annoyed by late season snow? Credit: Teddy W. Hopkins | Photo: Teddy W. Hopkins
April 2016 Photo: Helene Grogan
Buckland, MA: A thrush looks less than pleased about the early April snow. Credit: Helene Grogan | Photo: Helene Grogan
April 2016 Photo: MK Beach
Etna, NH: “Northern flicker looking for its breakfast.” Credit: MK Beach | Photo: MK Beach
April 2016 Photo: Dan Lovell
First of two, West Haven, VT: “Students from Stafford Technical Center worked with The Nature Conservancy and Audubon Vermont to enhance habitat for golden-winged warblers on the TNC's Helen Buckner Preserve.” Credit: Dan Lovell | Photo: Dan Lovell
April 2016 Photo: Dan Lovell
Continued: A student cutting invasive buckthorn as part of the golden-winged warbler project. Credit: Dan Lovell | Photo: Dan Lovell
April 2016 Photo: Barbara Mackay
Eden, VT: “Two wildflowers display welcome color on a mid-April hike: yellow violet and round-lobed hepatica. There were still pockets of ice and snow in shady parts of the woods.” Credit: Barbara Mackay | Photo: Barbara Mackay
April 2016 Photo: Josh Blouin
Berlin, VT: “An old, large, common snapping turtle.” Credit: Josh Blouin | Photo: Josh Blouin
April 2016 Photo: David Jakubowski
Washington, VT: Fresh beaver timberworks. Credit: David Jakubowski | Photo: David Jakubowski
April 2016 Photo: Morgan Perlman
Hancock, VT: “A moose track in a patch of snow from a late season snow atop Monastery Mountain in Hancock, Vermont. Monastery Mountain is a trail-less mountain that requires bushwhacking to explore. It is true Vermont wilderness here, with old growth spruce on the top of the mountain.” Credit: Morgan Perlman | Photo: Morgan Perlman
April 2016 Photo: David Parker, Jr.
Brookline, VT: Male and female common mergansers. Credit: David Parker, Jr. | Photo: David Parker, Jr.
April 2016 Photo: Tig Tillinghast
Thetford, VT: A goose and its young brood on the banks of the Ompompanoosuc River. Credit: Tig Tillinghast | Photo: Tig Tillinghast
April 2016 Photo: Kate Lindroos
Sunderland, MA: Northern Woodlands staff member Emily Rowe embraces the Buttonball Tree, an approximately 400-year-old American sycamore that’s said to be the widest tree this side of the Mississippi. Photo by Kate Lindroos | Photo: Kate Lindroos
April 2016 Photo: Julie Richburg
Easthampton, MA: “Turkey display caught on a wildlife camera at Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary.” Credit: Julie Richburg | Photo: Julie Richburg
April 2016 Photo: Fred Stone
Pawlet, VT: Bird box success! Credit: Fred Stone | Photo: Fred Stone
April 2016 Photo: Helene Grogan
Buckland, MA: “This barred owl has been hunting frogs in our pond all month.” Credit: Helene Grogan | Photo: Helene Grogan
April 2016 Photo: Teddy W. Hopkins
Readsboro, VT: “Two trees for the price of one!” Credit: Teddy W. Hopkins | Photo: Teddy W. Hopkins
April 2016 Photo: Donald Wharton
South Glens Falls, NY: A Bohemian waxwing. “This one was one of 4 flocks of 200 each heading north through this area at the same time. Their normal winter range is north of here according to the book. Many of them flew by within 4 feet, possibly from eating too many fermented berries!” Credit: Donald Wharton | Photo: Donald Wharton
April 2016 Photo: Kevin Macmillan
North Conway, NH: “East Branch of the Saco.” Credit: Kevin Macmillan | Photo: Kevin Macmillan
April 2016 Photo: Sylvia Vidal
Indian Lake, NY: “View from the causeway on Lake Abanakee.” Credit: Sylvia Vidal | Photo: Sylvia Vidal
April 2016 Photo: Teddy W. Hopkins
Readsboro, VT: “Old sawmill rig.” Credit: Teddy W. Hopkins | Photo: Teddy W. Hopkins
April 2016 Photo: Kim Wind
Corinth, VT: “Three beavers eating dinner in East Corinth.” Credit: Kim Wind | Photo: Kim Wind
April 2016 Photo: Karen Racette
Adirondacks, NY: Mourning cloak butterflies hibernate under loose tree bark and other forms of shelter. They emerge in early spring. Credit: Karen Racette | Photo: Karen Racette
April 2016 Photo: Helene Grogan
Buckland, VT: Another familiar sign of spring – chipmunks in the woodpile. Credit: Helene Grogan | Photo: Helene Grogan
April 2016 Photo: Dan Lovell
Rutland, VT: “Hardwood chips in the hopper at Green Mountain College’s boiler facility.” Credit: Dan Lovell | Photo: Dan Lovell
April 2016 Photo: Yvonne L. Stone
West Lebanon, NH: An eagle, posed near the Wilder Dam on the Connecticut River. Credit: Yvonne L. Stone | Photo: Yvonne L. Stone
April 2016 Photo: Susan Lichty
Acworth, NH: A cellar hole, transformed into a vernal pool. Credit: Susan Lichty | Photo: Susan Lichty
April 2016 Photo: Susan Lichty
Lempster, NH: Mating season for eastern newts. Credit: Susan Lichty. | Photo: Susan Lichty
April 2016 Photo: Helene Grogan
Buckland, MA: “Great blue heron, just after swallowing a rather large fish.” Credit: Helene Grogan | Photo: Helene Grogan
April 2016 Photo: Mary Jane Grace
Addison, VT: “Turtles at Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area.” Credit: Mary Jane Grace | Photo: Mary Jane Grace
April 2016 Photo: Barbara Mackay
Eden, VT: Round lobed hepatica. Credit: Barbara Mackay | Photo: Barbara Mackay

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