Reader Photo Gallery

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…

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.…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

In your second November gallery, Megan O’Toole found a wood frog hunkered down in the leaf litter, Dahlia the Corgi posed in a bright red field of blueberries, and Jack Nelson discovered…

Yet again, we received many gallery submissions, so we’re sharing selections in two batches. In this first gallery, Steve Eustis admired the final logs from a harvest, Matt DeLuca…

In your second gallery, AM Dannis captured spooky images of a Halloween “Hunter’s Moon,” Vin Lawrence withstood a bluebird invasion, and Kelly Stettner admired bright red…

We received many submissions to our October gallery, and are therefore (once again) dividing them into two batches. In this first gallery, many of you documented beautiful autumn landscapes,…

Suffering stinkhorns! Your second gallery for September includes two species of these strange and super-stinky fungi. Sherry Larsen photographed a bumblebee at the moment it entered a closed…

As in preceding months, we’ve divided reader photos into two galleries, to be published with succeeding newsletters. In this first gallery, Frank Gorga discovered an especially well…

In this second installment of our August Reader Photo Gallery, Harriet Szanto discovered a hummingbird perched in a tree, Ron Becker found a red admiral perched on boneset, and Eric and Amy…

Crawling cecropia caterpillars! Your August photos – which we have, once again, divided into two galleries – featured a variety of insect life. In this first gallery, Jamie Pearson…

In the Second Gallery for July, the Rodent-Chicken Mutual Appreciation Society held its summer meeting in Danville, Vermont. Lucy the Moose enjoyed an early breakfast in Alstead, New…