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What in the Woods is That?

No Place Like Home

Home sweet home. What animal lives here?

Confounding Cones

A two-part question: What type of cones are these, and why are they in a pile?

Tree MD

This tree has a disease. What’s your diagnosis?

Log Spill

What is spilling out of this log? (Thanks to Bonnie Pease for the photo.)

Game Cam Apparition

A game camera captured this animal shape on a beaver dam in late January. What animal is it?

Miniscule Mystery

Christina Erickson came upon masses of these tiny black creatures in the woods in Charlotte, Vermont, just after Thanksgiving. What are they?

Mushroom Madness

Cheryl Cullion came across this unusual mushroom in Intervale, New Hampshire. We’re wondering, what caused it to grow like this?

Stumped

What is happening to the top of this stump? Clue: It is part of a long row of white spruce planted together decades ago and more recently thinned by removing every other tree. Thanks to Kyle…

Mystery Mound

This moss-covered mound, around 100 feet long and 4 feet wide, was spotted high on a mountain in a stand of red spruce and balsam fir. What do you think it might be?

What in the Water?

Dana Hillesland sent us these photos she took in northwestern New Hampshire in October. We want to know: What in the Water is That?

Cylindrical Stumper

What are we looking at here?

Fuzzy Puzzler

Spotted beside a pond. What’s on this sapling?

Leaves of Three

“Leaves of three, let them be” is the old saying to help keep you from touching poison ivy, but not all plants that have leaves or leaflets arranged in groups of threes have the potential…

Forest Floor Mystery

A bit of fall color on the forest floor. What are we looking at here? (Thanks to Tammis Coffin for the photo.)

Mossy Mystery

Ben Haubrich sent us these photos of some mossy logs he found beside a pond in southwestern New Hampshire. How long ago were they cut, do you figure?

Tree ID & Oddity

What kind of tree is this, and what happened to the bark?

Game Cam Grabber

Ear’s this week’s question: What’s lurking just below the view of this game camera?

Mystifying Misfortune

What happened to this maple tree?

Late July Fuzz

We took these photos recently of a tree in full flower, in mid-July, in Vermont. Do you know what kind of tree it is?

Aliens?

What’s on these leaves?