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August 4th, 2017 Reader Photo Gallery

July 2017

Your July photos captured the remarkable diversity of life forms that inhabit northern woodlands – animals that waddle, paddle, hop, and scamper, others that flutter, crawl, and glide. This month’s gallery also features a variety of plants, mushrooms, and lichens that are going nowhere at all, except through the dispersal of their seeds, spores, and soredia.

We’re now looking for August 2017 photos that relate to northeastern forests. These could be images of plants, wildlife, weather, forest management, wood processing, educational activities, recreation, art, landscapes, or events. To submit your photos, please use the form below. Thank you!

Submission Deadline for the August Gallery: Monday, August 28, 2017

July 2017 Photo: Lisa Johnson
Worcester, MA. Reflections and lily pads on Coes Pond. Credit: Lisa Johnson | Photo: Lisa Johnson
July 2017 Photo: Charlie Schwarz
Lewisburg, PA. Bird's nest fungus growing on oak bark mulch. Each “egg” in the “nest” is a capsule of spores that measures 3/16" in diameter. When a raindrop lands in the mushroom’s cup, the capsule is ejected up to four feet away, where it will dry and release its spores. Credit: Charlie Schwarz | Photo: Charlie Schwarz
July 2017 Photo: Gordon Gould
Waterford, VT. “Rehab of an old skid road to be used in a small-scale harvest. This culvert is made from rough eastern hemlock (1 of 2).” Credit: Gordon Gould | Photo: Gordon Gould
July 2017 Photo: Gordon Gould
Waterford, VT. “Rehab of an old skid road to be used in a small-scale harvest. This culvert is made from rough eastern hemlock (2 of 2).” Credit: Gordon Gould | Photo: Gordon Gould
July 2017 Photo: Susan E. Lichty
Lempster, NH. “Beautiful blue borage blossom at Long Pond.” Credit: Susan E. Lichty | Photo: Susan E. Lichty
July 2017 Photo: Pat Nelson
Francestown, NH. “I was heartened to find this monarch butterfly caterpillar feeding on milkweed in southern NH on July 6.” Credit: Pat Nelson | Photo: Pat Nelson
July 2017 Photo: Charlie Schwarz
South Williamsport, PA. “Bumblebee mimic syrphid fly on black cohosh flower. Bee flies mimic stinging insects as protection from insect-eating predators.” Credit: Charlie Schwarz | Photo: Charlie Schwarz
July 2017 Photo: Aaron Fitzgerald
Pembroke, NH. “An American toad keeping cool in the shade of a maple tree.” Credit: Aaron Fitzgerald | Photo: Aaron Fitzgerald
July 2017 Photo: Sandy Dannis
Dalton, NH. “About to emerge . . . a black-eyed susan (Rudbeckia hirta).” Credit: Sandy Dannis | Photo: Sandy Dannis
July 2017 Photo: Sandy Dannis
Dalton, NH. “Can you find the fawn?” Credit: Sandy Dannis | Photo: Sandy Dannis
July 2017 Photo: Sophie Zyla
Beacon Falls, CT. “Green frog sporting different patterns made me initially think it was a mink frog visiting Connecticut. Green frogs may vary from the green we are used to.” Credit: Sophie Zyla | Photo: Sophie Zyla
July 2017 Photo: Charlie Schwarz
Central Pennsylvania. “Bald Eagle Mountain from the wooded hills north of Linden, PA. The long forested ridge was named for a leader of the Lenape tribe who was killed by white settlers in 1779.” Credit: Charlie Schwarz | Photo: Charlie Schwarz
July 2017 Photo: Charlie Schwarz
South Williamsport, PA. “The great crested flycatcher is a common denizen of woodlands where it nests in existing cavities in trees, usually an old woodpecker nest hole.” Credit: Charlie Schwarz | Photo: Charlie Schwarz
July 2017 Photo: Amy Kinder
East Haverhill, NH. “Waiting for Amy to move away from the chicken coop.” Credit: Amy Kinder | Photo: Amy Kinder
July 2017 Photo: Carolyn Haley
East Wallingford, VT. “How I spend my summer vacation.” Credit: Carolyn Haley | Photo: Carolyn Haley
July 2017 Photo: Peggy Baum
Hermon, ME. An eastern tiger swallowtail alights on coreopsis flowers. Credit: Peggy Baum | Photo: Peggy Baum
July 2017 Photo: Ed Baum
Hermon, ME. “Twin Maine whitetails discuss their plans for the day.” Credit: Ed Baum | Photo: Ed Baum
July 2017 Photo: Bonnie Honaberger
Snydertown, PA. “A family of four raccoons.” Credit: Bonnie Honaberger | Photo: Bonnie Honaberger
July 2017 Photo: Bonnie Honaberger
Snydertown, PA. “Three gobblers enjoying their morning stroll through the woods.” Credit: Bonnie Honaberger | Photo: Bonnie Honaberger
July 2017 Photo: Jackqueline Donnelly
Near Lake George, NY. “Button stage of the American Caesar’s mushroom (Amanita jacksonii).” Credit: Jackqueline Donnelly | Photo: Jackqueline Donnelly
July 2017 Photo: Edwin Young
Glover, VT. Great blue heron chicks. Credit: Edwin Young | Photo: Edwin Young
July 2017 Photo: Leda Beth Gray
Acadia National Park, ME. A calico pennant. Credit: Leda Beth Gray | Photo: Leda Beth Gray
July 2017 Photo: Leda Beth Gray
Acadia National Park, ME. A pickerel frog. Credit: Leda Beth Gray | Photo: Leda Beth Gray
July 2017 Photo: Elisa Campbell
Amherst, MA. “Mushroom with bugs.” Credit: Elisa Campbell | Photo: Elisa Campbell
July 2017 Photo: Elisa Campbell
Springfield, VT. “Damsels in Love,” captured at the annual Damsels & Dragons Festival at Hoyt's Landing. Credit: Elisa Campbell | Photo: Elisa Campbell
July 2017 Photo: Diana Todd
Halifax, VT. “Mid-July and the wild cranberries are blooming.” Credit: Diana Todd | Photo: Diana Todd
July 2017 Photo: Lori Dwyer
Lempster, NH. An albino porcupine dozing in a red maple tree. Credit: Lori Dwyer | Photo: Lori Dwyer
July 2017 Photo: Lori Dwyer
Lempster, NH. The same animal foraging among herbaceous plants. Credit: Lori Dwyer | Photo: Lori Dwyer
July 2017 Photo: Christopher Elwell
Shaftsbury, VT. “Happy Independence Day!” Credit: Christopher Elwell | Photo: Christopher Elwell
July 2017 Photo: Charlie Schwarz
South Williamsport, PA. “Line of old sugar maples at the site of the Mosquito Valley School, which was apparently closed by 1920.” Credit: Charlie Schwarz | Photo: Charlie Schwarz
July 2017 Photo: Jennifer Ford
Altamont, NY. Hemlock polypore. Credit: Jennifer Ford | Photo: Jennifer Ford
July 2017 Photo: Jennifer Ford
Altamont, NY. “Monotropa uniflora, a parasitic plant that obtains nutrients from mycorrhizal fungi.” Credit: Jennifer Ford | Photo: Jennifer Ford
July 2017 Photo: Charlie Schwarz
Tioga State Forest, PA. A timber rattlesnake. Credit: Charlie Schwarz | Photo: Charlie Schwarz
July 2017 Photo: Laurie Dirkx
Ontario, NY. Eastern kingbird. Credit: Laurie Dirkx | Photo: Laurie Dirkx
July 2017 Photo: John Snell
Montpelier, VT. American chestnut male flowers. Credit: John Snell | Photo: John Snell
July 2017 Photo: John Snell
Montpelier, VT. Gray birch fruit. Credit: John Snell | Photo: John Snell
July 2017 Photo: Gordon Rice
Stony Creek, NY. Two fawns playing by a stream. Credit: Gordon Rice | Photo: Gordon Rice
July 2017 Photo: Yvonne L. Stone
West Hartford, VT. A wood duck in eclipse plumage. Credit: Yvonne L. Stone | Photo: Yvonne L. Stone
July 2017 Photo: Marvin Bicknell
Franklin, VT. “We like it wet.” Credit: Marvin Bicknell | Photo: Marvin Bicknell
July 2017 Photo: Charlie Schwarz
Williamsport, PA. “A black bear photographed by a homemade trail camera using a Nikon point-and-shoot digital camera.” Credit: Charlie Schwarz | Photo: Charlie Schwarz
July 2017 Photo: Bonnie Honaberger
Snydertown, PA. “I was fortunate to come across this box turtle taking its walk while I was out taking my walk.” Credit: Bonnie Honaberger | Photo: Bonnie Honaberger
July 2017 Photo: Bonnie Honaberger
Snydertown, PA. “Here is something you don't get to see very often . . . a doe checking out a young fox.” Credit: Bonnie Honaberger | Photo: Bonnie Honaberger
July 2017 Photo: Barbara Mackay
Stillwater, NY. A northern pearly-eye. Credit: Barbara Mackay | Photo: Barbara Mackay
July 2017 Photo: John Foley
New Paltz, NY. “A lizard in the Northeast!? Yes, a five-lined skink seen basking on a stump at Lake Mohunk.” Credit: John Foley | Photo: John Foley
July 2017 Photo: Nate Rosebrooks
South Trescott, ME. A small forest of cup lichen. Lichens reproduce in two ways: first, by dispersing powdery soredia, which are clumps of algal cells wrapped in fungal filaments; second, by detachment of branching outgrowths, called isidia, from the parent lichen. Credit: Nate Rosebrooks | Photo: Nate Rosebrooks

Submit Your Photographs

We are looking for images taken in the past month. We will select approx. 60 images to feature in each gallery. Considerations include: variety of topics, quality of image, resolution (size), and geographic diversity. Special consideration is also given to first-time photographer submissions.

Three photo submissions per person, please. We regret that we cannot publish all submissions!

Please read and agree to the terms and conditions below, which provide Northern Woodlands a perpetual license to use your photographs. If your photo isn’t selected for our gallery but we wish to use it for another purpose, we will contact you.

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