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May 13th, 2016 Reader Photo Gallery

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.

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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
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Rutland, VT: Students from Stafford Technical Center visit Canopy Timber Alternatives to learn about the log buying business. Credit: Dan Lovell
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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
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Augusta, ME: A loon on the nest. “Maine beauty.” Credit: David Gomeau
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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
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Moretown, VT: “Osprey arrived shortly after little pond was stocked with trout.” Credit: Mary Jane Grace
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Thetford, VT: A close study of a spotted salamander larva, still inside its egg. Credit: Tig Tillinghast
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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
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Montpelier, VT: “Maple syrup colors at Morse Sugar Works.” Credit: Josh Blouin
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Evans Notch, ME: A fly romance. Credit: Michelle Hansen
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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
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East Wallingford, VT: Early morning turkey courtship. Credit: Carolyn Haley
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Augusta, ME: “Gray fox in clover.” Credit: David Gomeau
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Montpelier, VT: “Spring run.” Credit: John Snell
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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
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Readsboro, VT: Guardian of the patch cut? Stone giant annoyed by late season snow? Credit: Teddy W. Hopkins
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Buckland, MA: A thrush looks less than pleased about the early April snow. Credit: Helene Grogan
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Etna, NH: “Northern flicker looking for its breakfast.” Credit: MK Beach
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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
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Continued: A student cutting invasive buckthorn as part of the golden-winged warbler project. Credit: Dan Lovell
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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
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Berlin, VT: “An old, large, common snapping turtle.” Credit: Josh Blouin
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Washington, VT: Fresh beaver timberworks. Credit: David Jakubowski
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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
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Brookline, VT: Male and female common mergansers. Credit: David Parker, Jr.
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Thetford, VT: A goose and its young brood on the banks of the Ompompanoosuc River. Credit: Tig Tillinghast
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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
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Easthampton, MA: “Turkey display caught on a wildlife camera at Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary.” Credit: Julie Richburg
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Pawlet, VT: Bird box success! Credit: Fred Stone
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Buckland, MA: “This barred owl has been hunting frogs in our pond all month.” Credit: Helene Grogan
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Readsboro, VT: “Two trees for the price of one!” Credit: Teddy W. Hopkins
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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
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North Conway, NH: “East Branch of the Saco.” Credit: Kevin Macmillan
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Indian Lake, NY: “View from the causeway on Lake Abanakee.” Credit: Sylvia Vidal
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Readsboro, VT: “Old sawmill rig.” Credit: Teddy W. Hopkins
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Corinth, VT: “Three beavers eating dinner in East Corinth.” Credit: Kim Wind
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Adirondacks, NY: Mourning cloak butterflies hibernate under loose tree bark and other forms of shelter. They emerge in early spring. Credit: Karen Racette
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Buckland, VT: Another familiar sign of spring – chipmunks in the woodpile. Credit: Helene Grogan
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Rutland, VT: “Hardwood chips in the hopper at Green Mountain College’s boiler facility.” Credit: Dan Lovell
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West Lebanon, NH: An eagle, posed near the Wilder Dam on the Connecticut River. Credit: Yvonne L. Stone
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Acworth, NH: A cellar hole, transformed into a vernal pool. Credit: Susan Lichty
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Lempster, NH: Mating season for eastern newts. Credit: Susan Lichty.
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Buckland, MA: “Great blue heron, just after swallowing a rather large fish.” Credit: Helene Grogan
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Addison, VT: “Turtles at Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area.” Credit: Mary Jane Grace
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Eden, VT: Round lobed hepatica. Credit: Barbara Mackay

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