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September 16th, 2021 Reader Photo Gallery

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. Although summer was fading, there were still plenty of youngsters to be found, from Russ Lanius’s squabbling osprey fledglings to Cheryl Metcalf’s coyote pup. Two photographers shared surprising interior views. Kirk T. Gentalen photographed the contents of a ghost pipe flower, while Hale Morrell inspected the spore-packed insides of a puffball.

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August 2021 Photo: Karen L. Bruder
Northern Maine Woods-unorganized territory, ME. “A golden opportunity on the Golden Road. Female Canada lynx with kittens.” | Photo: Karen L. Bruder
August 2021 Photo: Will Murphy
Tamworth, NH. “Purple coral growing near an apple tree in a field. The enlargement looks like electron microscopy.” | Photo: Will Murphy
August 2021 Photo: Rosalyn Lincoln
Richmond, MA. “A green frog lounging by a small pond.” | Photo: Rosalyn Lincoln
August 2021 Photo: Erika Senglaub
Seneca Falls, NY. “Great blue heron - Montezuma Wildlife Refuge.” | Photo: Erika Senglaub
August 2021 Photo: Eric D'Aleo
Piermont, NH. “End of a day at Lake Tarlton.” | Photo: Eric D'Aleo
August 2021 Photo: Paul Constantino
Burlington, VT. “Monarch caterpillars on butterfly weed.” | Photo: Paul Constantino
August 2021 Photo: AM Dannis
Dalton, NH. “Tiny bird's nest fungi (Crucibulum) seen along a woodland trail.” | Photo: AM Dannis
August 2021 Photo: Rosalyn Lincoln
Richmond, MA. “An eastern garter snake hanging out in the garden.” | Photo: Rosalyn Lincoln
August 2021 Photo: Lonnie Jandreau
Ashland, ME. An alert deer. | Photo: Lonnie Jandreau
August 2021 Photo: Will Murphy
Tamworth, NH. “A grasshopper waltzing with his reflection in my car window.” | Photo: Will Murphy
August 2021 Photo: Cheryl Metcalf
Brighton, VT. “Coyote pup practicing hunting skills in Silvio O. Conte Wildlife Refuge.” | Photo: Cheryl Metcalf
August 2021 Photo: Cheryl Metcalf
Tunbridge, VT. “Black swallowtail butterfly dusted in pollen from milk thistle.” | Photo: Cheryl Metcalf
August 2021 Photo: Hale Morrell
Brattleboro, VT. “A striking pigskin puffball.” | Photo: Hale Morrell
August 2021 Photo: AM Dannis
Dalton, NH. “Hidden among the ferns a brood of hatchlings anxiously awaits mom's return.” | Photo: AM Dannis
August 2021 Photo: Karinne Heise
Warner, NH. “More fungi fireworks -- golden spindles.” This fungus also goes by the names yellow coral and spindle-shaped yellow coral. | Photo: Karinne Heise
August 2021 Photo: Stephen Fox
Concord, NH. “White-lined sphinx moth caterpillar in full defense mode.” | Photo: Stephen Fox
August 2021 Photo: Tom Grett
Lancaster County, PA. “Adult female snapping turtle.” | Photo: Tom Grett
August 2021 Photo: Si Balch
Brooklin, ME. “Stinkhorn mushroom - witch's egg.” | Photo: Si Balch
August 2021 Photo: Laurie Harville
Lyman, NH. “We were hiking on our property and this striking purple color just appeared in front of me on the forest floor. We've seen many interesting fungi species this summer, but nothing like this.” This is one of several hard-to-distinguish purple corals in the Clavaria genus. | Photo: Laurie Harville
August 2021 Photo: Sheri Larsen
Shelburne, VT. “Adult ospreys flying in and out of the nest. They are feeding two youngsters who are hidden in the nest.” | Photo: Sheri Larsen
August 2021 Photo: Jennifer Brockway
Baxter State Park, ME. “Long climb ahead, Abol slide and beyond to the Tablelands of Mt Katahdin from the Abol Trail.” | Photo: Jennifer Brockway
August 2021 Photo: Amy Quist
Heath, MA. “I understand now why the black and yellow garden spider is sometimes called the zig zag spider! This female constructed her web between some daylily stalks in my yard.” | Photo: Amy Quist
August 2021 Photo: David George
South Strafford, VT. “Babies over the tiny house door.” | Photo: David George
August 2021 Photo: Frank Kaczmarek
Littleton, NH. “The fruit bodies of the slime mold Leocarpus fragilis on a birch twig.” | Photo: Frank Kaczmarek
August 2021 Photo: Clare Lise Kelly
Richmond, MA. “Evening sky in the Berkshires.” | Photo: Clare Lise Kelly
August 2021 Photo: Tom Grett
Lancaster County, PA. “Eastern black rat snake is almost ready to shed its skin. Notice the eye. This eye color change happens as a result of skin loosening and fluid building up between the old and new skin layers. At the peak of this transformation, the snake's eyes take on a milky blue or blue-gray color. This pre-shedding event can take one or two weeks, and it makes the snake nearly blind.” | Photo: Tom Grett
August 2021 Photo: Charlie Schwarz
Winslow Hill, PA. “Not quite twins - a pair of bull elk that have shed their antlers’ velvet.” | Photo: Charlie Schwarz
August 2021 Photo: Kirk T. Gentalen
Tenants Harbor, ME. “Watched this crab spider nail 5 flies in 4 days. Good times.” | Photo: Kirk T. Gentalen
August 2021 Photo: Sheri Larsen
Colchester, VT. “How many common mergansers can you count?” | Photo: Sheri Larsen
August 2021 Photo: Jennifer Brockway
Troy, ME. “American groundnut, Apios americana, blooming on a dewy morning alongside a woodland trail.” | Photo: Jennifer Brockway
August 2021 Photo: Tom Grett
Lancaster County, PA. “Dogbane leaf beetle. The brilliant metallic hues of this beetle tell the world “don’t eat me.” These beetles feed on the poisonous dogbane plant and are immune to the potentially lethal cardiac glycosides the plant contains. The beetle stores these cardiac glycosides in glands and can secrete them if threatened by a predator.” | Photo: Tom Grett
August 2021 Photo: Danielle Mattraw
Enosburg Falls, VT. “Water droplets.” | Photo: Danielle Mattraw
August 2021 Photo: Eric D'Aleo
Piermont, NH. “The Milky Way galaxy over Lake Katherine at midnight.” | Photo: Eric D'Aleo
August 2021 Photo: Pam Landry
Montague, MA. “Appreciating the less often appreciated. Nursery web spider on native Rudbeckia laciniata.” | Photo: Pam Landry
August 2021 Photo: Michelle Vigeant
Amherst, MA. “Ethereal pipes.” | Photo: Michelle Vigeant
August 2021 Photo: Alex Barrett
Wardsboro, VT. “A bulldozer heading out to put in some temporary water bars on a haul road during our rainy summer.” | Photo: Alex Barrett
August 2021 Photo: Eric D'Aleo
Plymouth, NH. “White admiral butterfly takes a rest on a branch of balsam fir.” | Photo: Eric D'Aleo
August 2021 Photo: Charlie Schwarz
Elimsport, PA. A Marasmius fungus, “one of the tiny fungi found in woodlands.” | Photo: Charlie Schwarz
August 2021 Photo: Janet Innes
Barkhamsted, CT. “People’s Forest rock art.” | Photo: Janet Innes
August 2021 Photo: Ber Richardson and Terry Souers
Middlebury, VT. “Greater purple fringed bog orchid, Abbey Pond Trail.” | Photo: Ber Richardson and Terry Souers
August 2021 Photo: Ross Lanius
Branford, CT. “Found these juvenile ospreys face to face squawking as I was walking on the Trolley Trail.” | Photo: Ross Lanius
August 2021 Photo: Amy Quist
Heath, MA. “With its perfectly coiled proboscis, a red-spotted purple butterfly soaks up the morning sunshine on my front porch.” | Photo: Amy Quist
August 2021 Photo: Clare Lise Kelly
Monterey, MA. “Upright coral fungus.” | Photo: Clare Lise Kelly
August 2021 Photo: Frank Kaczmarek
Lyman, NH. “Perched on a leaf in the early morning light, a tiger moth displays its namesake colors.” | Photo: Frank Kaczmarek
August 2021 Photo: Stephen Fox
Pittsburg, NH. “There were three of these large spiders within 2 feet of each other under the eave.” | Photo: Stephen Fox
August 2021 Photo: Lois Wicklow
Francestown, NH. “Monarch metamorphosis.” | Photo: Lois Wicklow
August 2021 Photo: Kirk T. Gentalen
Tenants Harbor, ME. “Good August for bleeding teeth.” This is the fruiting body of Hydnellum peckii, also called strawberries and cream fungus. | Photo: Kirk T. Gentalen
August 2021 Photo: Jennifer Brockway
Starks, ME. “Joe-pye weed in bloom along the Sandy River.” | Photo: Jennifer Brockway
August 2021 Photo: Eric D'Aleo
Campton, NH. “A pair of spreadwing damselflies mating.” | Photo: Eric D'Aleo
August 2021 Photo: Steve Gallagher
Worcester, VT. “Sunset over a beaver pond.” | Photo: Steve Gallagher
August 2021 Photo: Ross Lanius
North Haven, CT. “This bright red orange bracket fungus retained its vivid coloring for about a week.” | Photo: Ross Lanius
August 2021 Photo: Bonnie Honaberger
Snydertown, PA. “A garden orb spider decided to live in my one garden this year. Why does something so pretty make me run in the other direction?!” | Photo: Bonnie Honaberger
August 2021 Photo: Tom Grett
Lancaster County, PA. “Male bullfrog. You can tell this is a male bullfrog because the tympanum (the round external ear ) is larger than the eye.” | Photo: Tom Grett
August 2021 Photo: Karinne Heise
Deering, NH. “Chestnut-sided warbler munching on a katydid.” | Photo: Karinne Heise
August 2021 Photo: Bonnie Honaberger
Snydertown, PA. “When I shared this picture of a walking stick on a game camera, my grandson said that the walking stick was trying to take a selfie!!” | Photo: Bonnie Honaberger
August 2021 Photo: Chuck Dinsmore
Damariscotta, ME. “’Bob-kitty’ posed for the game-cam behind our house in Damariscotta; check the leggings: ’Mom told me to go play in the marsh with the frogs ;-)’” | Photo: Chuck Dinsmore
August 2021 Photo: Frank Kaczmarek
Franconia, NH. “On a recent hike I came across a large cluster of cotton grass growing in a wet meadow.” | Photo: Frank Kaczmarek
August 2021 Photo: Jennifer Brockway
Baxter State Park, ME. “Intrepid explorer, Upper South Branch Pond.” | Photo: Jennifer Brockway
August 2021 Photo: Charlie Schwarz
Torbert, PA. “The sycamore tussock moth's caterpillar has "hairs" that can be irritating to some people. As the name indicates they feed on sycamore leaves.” | Photo: Charlie Schwarz
August 2021 Photo: Kirk T. Gentalen
Tenants Harbor, ME. “Ghost pipes rule.” | Photo: Kirk T. Gentalen
August 2021 Photo: Ross Lanius
Madison, CT. “Found this solitary sandpiper and reflection in Boulder Pond, Hammonasset State Park. Aptly named, didn't see another solitary sandpiper.” | Photo: Ross Lanius
August 2021 Photo: Sally Cornwell
Brookfield, NH. “Monarch chrysalis.” | Photo: Sally Cornwell
August 2021 Photo: Frank Kaczmarek
Lyman, NH. “The delicate parasol-like fruiting bodies of the fungus Marasmius capillaris growing out of the leaf litter after a prolonged wet period.” | Photo: Frank Kaczmarek
August 2021 Photo: AM Dannis
Dalton, NH. “Morning visitor in the garden.” | Photo: AM Dannis
August 2021 Photo: Sheri Larsen
Essex, VT. “Turtleheads in the woods. When I see these flowers I know that fall is just around the corner.” | Photo: Sheri Larsen

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