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,…
Reader Photo Gallery
May 2022
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…
April 2022
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…
March 2022
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.…
February 2022
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…
January 2022
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…
December 2021
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…
November 2021
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…
October 2021
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…
September 2021
Your September photos included mountain scenes and bright leaves, chicken of the woods fungi in the woods and American lady butterflies out in the fields. Michelle Wainer encountered a…
August 2021
Your August photos showed woody landscape scenes, as well as an abundance of late summer small life, from a temporarily blue-eyed snake to the unfortunately named bleeding teeth fungi.…
July 2021
Many of your July photos had a fungal theme, from Jay Remington’s crowd of Amanitas, to Dan Zucker’s toga mantleslug lounging on a mushroom. Insects – pollinators and…
June 2021
Birds featured in many of your June photos. Don Wharton welcomed a visit from a famous white robin and Geoffrey Bluh documented the happy resolution of a perilous woodcock chick crossing,…
May 2021
In May, you often turned your lenses on owls. Fuzzy barred fledglings peered down at Gary Campbell from a tree, while Kirk Gentalen investigated the grisly remains of a saw-whet’s past…
April 2021
Your April photos showed sunny scenes of flowers blooming, newly arrived migratory birds, and snow-fed streams and lakes. All that bright light inspired some wildlife napping: Sally Duston…
March 2021
Many of your March photos showed winter birds, from crossbills to a blizzard of snow geese. John Snell shared a thermal image of skunk cabbage (a plant that gets an early start by generating…
February 2021
Your February photos showed vivid sunrises and sunsets, unusual ice formations, and people outside enjoying the snow. Kit Hood captured an image of a vivid blue-and-purple ice seep, and Gordon…
January 2021
Your January photos included beautiful landscape and sky scenes, birds in snow, and people (plus Dahlia the Corgi) outside enjoying winter recreation. Lonnie Jandreau encountered a…
December 2020 - Part Two
In your second gallery of December images, Peter Hollinger took a stunning macro shot of a snowflake, Tami Gingrich sought out short-eared owls, and Eric D’Aleo applied the cloud gazing…
December 2020 - Part One
Due to the high volume of photo submissions, we’ve again divided our Reader Photo Gallery into two batches. In this first gallery, you contemplated a variety of tracks and funky ice…