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April 28th, 2017 Reader Photo Gallery

April 2017

Your photos this month featured turkey courtship and spring wetlands. Red fox kits basked in the sun in East Nassau, New York, and in Waitsfield, Vermont, a chipmunk ventured out of its lair...to fall prey to a hungry hawk. Check out the image of emerald ash borer damage from Pennsylvania for a sobering look at what these insects can do.

We’re now on the hunt for May 2017 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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Ontario, NY: “Mated pair, female in flight.” Credit: Laurie Dirkx
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South Williamsport, PA. “White ash logs at the Baillie log yard near Williamsport.” Credit: Charlie Schwarz
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West Hartford, VT. “Some spring color.” Pumonaria saccharata, or Bethlehem lungwort, is a native of Europe, but is known to grow wild in Connecticut, New York, and Vermont. Credit: Yvonne L Stone
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Waitsfield, VT. An accipiter (almost certainly a Cooper’s hawk) and a spring chipmunk. Credit: Gib Geiger
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Montgomery, VT. “Mountain glow.” Credit: Pauline Fadden
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Thetford, VT. “Peent.” This woodcock began performing its courtship displays in the first week of April. Credit: Tig Tillinghast
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Worcester, MA. Beautiful decay. A pine stump exhibits a vivid array of fungal stains. Credit: Lisa Johnson
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Webster, NY. A pair of wood ducks. Credit: Gina Kreutter
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Shirley, MA. “Focused bobcat perched on a stonewall next to a beaver pond at The Trustees of Reservations' Farandnear property.” Credit: Sally Naser
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Constantia, NY: A vernal pool. Credit: Linda Reed
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Acadia National Park, ME. “A seaweed-entwined oak leaf.” Credit: Meghan McCarthy McPhaul
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Bryant Pond, ME. “Heron heralds spring.” Credit: Jane Chandler
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Canaan, NY. “Ferns beginning to grow.” Credit: Patricia Liddle
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Ashland, ME. “As neat as this young moose looks, it was covered with blood-sucking ticks and was in misery.” Credit: Lonnie S. Jandreau
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Readsboro, VT. “Double rainbow above our general store.” Credit: Teddy Hopkins
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Harrisburg Lake, Adirondacks. “Unhatched wood duck eggs.” Credit: Don Wharton
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Ashland, ME. Late April is prime turkey courtship season. Here, two toms fight for access to the hens. Credit: Lonnie S. Jandreau
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Plymouth, MA. The turtles are back. Basking northern red-bellied cooters at Myles Standish State Forest. Credit: Linda Scharf
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Nassau, NY. “Overwatch on Nassau Lake.” Credit: Fred McCagg
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Rockingham, VT. “In the dry ground of the oak-pine hills near the Connecticut River, a cut-to-length harvester releases crop trees and liberates pine saplings that have been hiding under a mixed-oak canopy.” Credit: Jack Bell
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Halifax, VT. “On April 13, the day after the ice went out on our pond, we had a visit by a great blue heron.” Credit: Diana Todd
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East Nassau, NY. Red fox kits enjoy the sun on April 18. Credit: Fred McCagg
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East Nassau, NY. “The curious one!” Credit: Fred McCagg
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Cherry Valley, MA. “Rushing waters after rain.” Credit: Lisa J. Johnson
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Snydertown, PA. “While taking my walk to check my game cameras I heard a chickadee, watched very carefully, and was able to [identify] the tree it was going in and out of.” Credit: Bonnie Honaberger
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Groton, MA. “Snapping turtle along the Nashua River Rail Trail.” Credit: Mena Schmid
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Thetford, VT. In late April, a bluebird perches on a birdhouse that was decorated by the photographer’s children. Credit: Tig Tillinghast
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Worcester, MA. An impressionistic image of spring. Credit: Lisa Johnson
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South Williamsport, PA. “Emerald ash borer galleries on a dead white ash. It has been estimated that there may be as many as 10,000 larvae beneath the bark of a large ash tree - is it any wonder the trees die?” Credit: Charlie Schwarz
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Washington, MA. “Turkey track in spring snow.” Credit: David Ellis
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Halifax, VT. And here’s another bird track. “That's a three-foot stride! (There were actually two parallel sets of tracks.) I'm betting Great Blue Heron. There's a rookery two miles away.” Credit: Diana Todd
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Constantia, NY. Rounding out the bird track gallery, here’s a more artistic depiction of grouse tracks beside an oak leaf. Credit: Linda Reed
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White River Junction, VT. “Calm before the storm.” An image of the sky on April 1. Credit: Karen Dean
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South Williamsport, PA. “A pair of hooded mergansers on a woodland stream. Photo from a 'homebrewed' camera trap using a Fuji J10 digital camera.” Credit: Charlie Schwarz
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Hermon, ME. A male pileated woodpecker enjoys a snack. You can tell his gender by the red stripe on his cheek. Credit: Ed Baum
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Hermon, ME. Here’s a female, probably his mate. Note the lack of a red cheek stripe. Credit: Ed Baum
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Lyme, NH. A kestrel surveys a pasture. Credit: Tig Tillinghast
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Strafford, VT. This time of year, amphibians are laying eggs en masse in vernal pools and other wetlands. Credit: Beth Sekinger
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Medford, MA. “Muskrat on the shore of the Lower Mystic Lake.” Credit: Mena Schmid
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Canaan, NY. “Tussock grass.” Credit: Patricia Liddle
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Wilder, VT. “One of a large group of turkey vultures.” Credit: Yvonne L. Stone
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North Conway, NH. Artist Brook bend, “where Champney painted.” Benjamin Champney, a nineteenth century artist, often depicted White Mountain scenes. Credit: Kevin Macmillan
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Waitsfield, VT. More turkey courtship action. “A flirting fan.” Credit: Gib Geiger
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Twin Mountain, NH. And here’s a side view of the same type of display. This tom was showing off for two females. Credit: John Gutowski
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Unityville, PA. “A legacy white oak in the middle of a field.” Credit: Charlie Schwarz

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