Reader Photo Gallery

Your May images showed spring in full fling. In Rockingham, Vermont, Chantal Caron observed a downy woodpecker chick (no doubt complaining about its parents’ slow food service) and in…

Readers shared a bumper crop of images for the April gallery, resulting in some difficult choices for the editors! Your photos included early spring wildflowers, amphibian eggs, waterfalls,…

Frequent themes in your March photos included maple sugaring, vividly colored winter skies, and the return of blue herons. Tim Larsen captured an encounter between a barred owl and an…

Your February photos included images of winter resident birds and northern visitors, a tree valentine, and quiet scenes illuminated by soft winter light. A number of you shared intriguing…

For a month with a bleak reputation, January 2023 inspired a number of colorful and lively images from our gallery photographers. Frequent topics included winter birds (especially owls),…

Your December photos included ice bells, fast-flowing meltwater, blaze orange fungi, and winter tree work by beavers and pileated woodpeckers. In Bristol, New Hampshire, Herb D’Arcy…

Your November photos included split milkweed pods and wind-borne seeds, forest plants in fall color, spectacular autumn skies, and the arrival of ice and snow. In Stoddard, New Hampshire, Sue…

Your October photos featured colorful fungi, mountain views and – taking advantage of the unusually warm weather – a surprising number of late season herps. Check out Tami…

Your September photos showed late season fungi and insects, fall flowers including bottle gentians, and the onset of vibrant fall colors. In South Hero, Vermont, a great blue heron showed off…

Your August photos included a diversity of late summer life, including insects and spiders, juvenile birds, and coral fungi. In Hawley, Massachusetts, Amy Quist did her best to shoo a stubborn…

Insects, spiders, and flowers were frequent subjects for your July photos, as were water scenes. In Wilmington, New York, Bekky Honkala encountered an iridescent dogbane leaf beetle on its…

Many of you took your cameras into the bog this month, emerging with colorful images of flowers and insects. Fishing scenes, caterpillars, and baby birds were also common themes. In Windham,…

Our May photo gallery conveys the warmth of the approaching summer, with bright blue skies providing the backdrop in images of an American kestrel and a red columbine. Photos of efts, cedar…

As happens every spring, we received an April flood of great photos, many showing birds. In Biddeford, Maine, Paula Jean Schlax discovered a summer tanager in the process of growing in its…

Your March photos still included many snowy scenes, but a cheering number of spring sights as well, including spotted salamanders, trailing arbutus, osprey, and a beautiful comma butterfly.…

Your February photos showed wildlife tracks in snow, winter-hardy birds, stunning skies, and here and there, the first glimmerings of spring, from common mergansers pairing up, to the fuzzy…

Your January images often related to birds, from Sabina Ernst’s image of a crow snow angel, to Tami Gingrich’s fun shot of a Carolina wren captured at a banding station, and…

Your December photos showed quiet landscape scenes, winter-hardy birds, and working woodlands projects. Sheri Larsen observed ice fisherman on Indian Brook Reservoir in Vermont, while out in…

Your November photos depicted the subdued colors and quiet scenes of the Northeast’s “stick season,” as well as occasional bright highlights such as lemon drop fungi and…

Your October photos included late season arthropods and fungi, and a number of landscape scenes featuring water, mountains, and fall foliage. Susan Margolis dazzled with a macro shot of a…