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September 19th, 2023 Reader Photo Gallery

August 2023

In August, many of you seemed intent on documenting the diversity of late-summer life forms on the forest floor. Berries, insects, snakes, and frogs all featured prominently (there was also an appearance by the first-and-last-of-its-kind “Bold Coast long tailed lizard”).  In North Clarendon, Vermont, Sheryl Gebauer documented a dramatic (and possibly romantic) snapping turtle rendezvous, while in Tuxedo, New York, Terryanne Maenza-Gmelch made a fun beetle find: an eastern eyed click beetle, complete with fake eye markings to scare of the birds. “Tiny toad on Top of Mt. Nittany” is fun phrase to say, and it’s also what Katie found in State College, Pennsylvania.

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August 2023 Photo: Larry Litke
Jeffersonville, VT. “Newly fledged bluebird being fed a wild raspberry.” | Photo: Larry Litke
August 2023 Photo: Brandon Sorg
Newfane, VT. “A fallen mycena mushroom (about 1cm wide), rests on top of British soldier lichens.” | Photo: Brandon Sorg
August 2023 Photo: Richard Philben
Orange, MA. “Looking from underneath a railroad bridge at the Miller’s River from my kayak.” | Photo: Richard Philben
August 2023 Photo: Anne Montgomery
Guilford, VT. “Monarch chrysalis attached to a garden hose.” | Photo: Anne Montgomery
August 2023 Photo: Cori Hill
Westford, VT. “I have no words!” | Photo: Cori Hill
August 2023 Photo: Sandy Dannis
Dalton, NH. “The common name for these unusual green jelly baby (Leotia viscosa) mushrooms is ‘chicken lips’!” | Photo: Sandy Dannis
August 2023 Photo: Barry C. Setterstrom
Newark Pond, VT. “A nice sunset from the south side of Newark Pond.” | Photo: Barry C. Setterstrom
August 2023 Photo: Bekky Honkala
Wilmington, NY. “Eastern tailed-blue.” | Photo: Bekky Honkala
August 2023 Photo: Bendrix Bailey
Greenville, ME. “Rare occurrence of purple coral fungus.” | Photo: Bendrix Bailey
August 2023 Photo: Stephen Fox
Concord, NH. “Monarch butterfly caterpillar. Why a butterfly garden is a good thing.” | Photo: Stephen Fox
August 2023 Photo: Charlie Schwarz
South Williamsport, PA. “The most poisonous mushroom in North America, the destroying angel.” | Photo: Charlie Schwarz
August 2023 Photo: Frank Kaczmarek
Sugar Hill, NH. “Closeup of a common garter snake.” | Photo: Frank Kaczmarek
August 2023 Photo: Sheri Larsen
Stowe, VT. “A turtlehead and an aster near the Mt. Mansfield ridgeline.” | Photo: Sheri Larsen
August 2023 Photo: Ben Haubrich
Francestown, NH. “Bobcat on the prowl.” | Photo: Ben Haubrich
August 2023 Photo: Terryanne Maenza-Gmelch
Cornwall, NY. A stinkhorn, probably elegant stinkhorn, Mutinus elegans, in Black Rock Forest. | Photo: Terryanne Maenza-Gmelch
August 2023 Photo: Larry Litke
Jeffersonville, VT. “Juvenile male ruby-throated hummingbird covered in pollen.” | Photo: Larry Litke
August 2023 Photo: Sheryl Gebauer
North Clarendon, VT. “Snapping turtles seeing eye to eye in our pond.” | Photo: Sheryl Gebauer
August 2023 Photo: Kirk T. Gentalen
Tenants Harbor, ME. “Spider in the straight branched coral (Ramaria stricta).” | Photo: Kirk T. Gentalen
August 2023 Photo: Barry
Francestown, NH. “Northeastern pine sawyer beetle (Monochampus notatus) is our largest sawyer beetle. Females lay eggs in dead or dying pines; larvae make audible chewing sounds and produce sawdust, hence the name sawyer beetle. (Caution: sawyer beetles may bite.)” | Photo: Barry
August 2023 Photo: Katie
State College, PA. “Lavender mushroom on Mt. Nittany.” [Editor’s note: This is probably a viscid violet court.] | Photo: Katie
August 2023 Photo: Gordon Gould
Waterford, VT. “Low impact logging during a wet season using single tree and small group selection with a tractor and winch.” | Photo: Gordon Gould
August 2023 Photo: Jill DeVito
Windsor, VT. “A clear day on Mt. Ascutney.” | Photo: Jill DeVito
August 2023 Photo: Charlie Schwarz
South Williamsport, PA. “This pretty caterpillar feeds on turtlehead and has no common name, its scientific name is Tenthredo grandis.” | Photo: Charlie Schwarz
August 2023 Photo: Brandon Sorg
Newfane, VT. “While small in size, this parrot mushroom’s (Gliophorus psittacinus) unusual lime green color easily caught my attention.” | Photo: Brandon Sorg
August 2023 Photo: Frank Kaczmarek
Lyman, NH. “The wing remnants of a monarch butterfly were found suspiciously near the entrance to an ant colony.” | Photo: Frank Kaczmarek
August 2023 Photo: Susan Lichty
Barnstead, NH. “Pretty purple pickerelweed.” | Photo: Susan Lichty
August 2023 Photo: Karinne Heise
Williamstown, MA. “A black bear cub surveying the view from the top of a wild apple tree.” | Photo: Karinne Heise
August 2023 Photo: Marcy Stanton
Lyndeborough, NH. “Striking clymene moth.” | Photo: Marcy Stanton
August 2023 Photo: Jay Remington
Bedford, MA. “Northern water snake.” | Photo: Jay Remington
August 2023 Photo: Joyce Layne
Boot Head Lubec, ME. “The Bold Coast long tailed lizard.” | Photo: Joyce Layne
August 2023 Photo: Jill DeVito
Mt. Ascutney State Park, VT. A spider visited the photographer’s water bottle on top of Mt. Ascutney. | Photo: Jill DeVito
August 2023 Photo: Mary Hartt
North Maine Woods, ME. “Otter wondering.” | Photo: Mary Hartt
August 2023 Photo: Charlie Schwarz
Duboistown, PA. “Not all mushrooms are large or showy, this is the tiny horse hair fungus.” | Photo: Charlie Schwarz
August 2023 Photo: Tom Grett
Northern Adirondacks, NY. “Green grass snake.” | Photo: Tom Grett
August 2023 Photo: Kirk T. Gentalen
Tenants Harbor, ME. “Ochre jelly babies - (Leotia lubrica), pre-deliquesce.” | Photo: Kirk T. Gentalen
August 2023 Photo: Katie
State College, PA. “Tiny toad on Top of Mt. Nittany.” | Photo: Katie
August 2023 Photo: Kathy Guicho
Lawrence, MA. “Stinkhorn growing in our garden.” | Photo: Kathy Guicho
August 2023 Photo: Jeff Krebs
Burlington, VT. “Cecropia moth caterpillar.” | Photo: Jeff Krebs
August 2023 Photo: Sheri Larsen
Essex Town, VT. “Nice display of ochre jelly club fungi at Indian Brook Park.” | Photo: Sheri Larsen
August 2023 Photo: Nate Rosebrooks
South Trescott, ME. “Pearly everlasting, Anaphalis margaritacea.” | Photo: Nate Rosebrooks
August 2023 Photo: Marcy Stanton
Temple, NH. “A perfect day for a walk and a beautiful view.” | Photo: Marcy Stanton
August 2023 Photo: Jill DeVito
Springfield, VT. “The waterfall at Muckross State Park.” | Photo: Jill DeVito
August 2023 Photo: Molly Doody
Wendell, MA. “A spring peeper nested in the kale in my garden.” | Photo: Molly Doody
August 2023 Photo: Ben Haubrich
Francestown, NH. “Fawn wary of bobcat on the prowl.” | Photo: Ben Haubrich
August 2023 Photo: Matt DeLuca
Nauset Beach, Chatham, MA. “A green lacewing resting on a rainy wall.” | Photo: Matt DeLuca
August 2023 Photo: John W. Blaser
Brewster, NY. “Passage to Clear Pond, Adirondacks.” | Photo: John W. Blaser
August 2023 Photo: Tim Larsen
Moretown, VT. “Broadwings frolicking.” | Photo: Tim Larsen
August 2023 Photo: Richard Philben
Shelburne, MA. “One of four great egrets that stopped by the Patten Hill area one afternoon.” | Photo: Richard Philben
August 2023 Photo: Mary Hartt
North Maine Woods, ME. “Cow in the fog.” | Photo: Mary Hartt
August 2023 Photo: Tom Grett
Northern Adirondacks, NY. “Viceroy butterfly on coneflowers.” | Photo: Tom Grett
August 2023 Photo: Joyce Layne
Boot Head Lubec, ME. A trillium berry. | Photo: Joyce Layne
August 2023 Photo: Sandy Dannis
Dalton, NH. “It’s baaacck!!! Chicken of the woods (Laetiporus) reappears on a big old log deep in the woods.” | Photo: Sandy Dannis
August 2023 Photo: Marcy Stanton
Lyndeborough, NH. “Common wood-nymph - a little battered but still beautiful.” | Photo: Marcy Stanton
August 2023 Photo: Sharon Bombard
Shelburne Falls, MA. “Glacial potholes (kettles) at the base of Salmon Falls on the Deerfield River as water and rocks swirl together to grind out these circular holes (which are still being made today as ice melt raises the water level every spring).” | Photo: Sharon Bombard
August 2023 Photo: Susan E. March
Peru, NY. “Ruby throated hummingbird tasting the bee balm.” | Photo: Susan E. March
August 2023 Photo: Judy Sweet
Buckland, MA. “Beech branch loaded with nuts on August 24th.” | Photo: Judy Sweet
August 2023 Photo: Ben Haubrich
Francestown, NH. “Pinesap in the cool evergreen understory.” | Photo: Ben Haubrich
August 2023 Photo: Toby Kravitz
White River Junction, VT. “Black giant ichneumonid wasp.” | Photo: Toby Kravitz
August 2023 Photo: Mary Hartt
Otis, ME. A parent loon feeding its chick. | Photo: Mary Hartt
August 2023 Photo: Terryanne Maenza-Gmelch
Tuxedo, NY. “Eastern eyed click beetle in Sterling Forest State Park” | Photo: Terryanne Maenza-Gmelch
August 2023 Photo: Kirk T. Gentalen
Tenants Harbor, ME. “Wood froglet.” | Photo: Kirk T. Gentalen
August 2023 Photo: Karinne Heise
Warner, NH. “A jagged ambush bug embracing the cone of a black-eyed Susan.” | Photo: Karinne Heise
August 2023 Photo: Sandy Dannis
Dalton, NH. “Large patch of Indian pipe (Monotropa uniflora), aka ghost plant, turning pink as it goes past.” | Photo: Sandy Dannis
August 2023 Photo: Tom Grett
Northern Adirondacks, NY. “Green frog on lily pads.” | Photo: Tom Grett
August 2023 Photo: John W. Blaser
Brewster, NY. “Sunset on the Rainbow Lake Esker, Adirondacks.” | Photo: John W. Blaser
August 2023 Photo: Sheri Larsen
Stowe, VT. “Lingonberries along the Long Trail on the Mt. Mansfield ridgeline.” | Photo: Sheri Larsen
August 2023 Photo: Tom Nold
Shelburne, VT. “Doe and fawn in evening light.” | Photo: Tom Nold
August 2023 Photo: Joyce Layne
Hamilton Cove Lubec, ME. “Woolly bear on meadowsweet.” | Photo: Joyce Layne
August 2023 Photo: Nancy Dennis
Norwich, VT. “The perfect nest during this rainy month.” | Photo: Nancy Dennis
August 2023 Photo: Frank Kaczmarek
Franconia, NH. “A young tree frog chilling out and enjoying a sunny morning.” | Photo: Frank Kaczmarek
August 2023 Photo: Judy Sweet
Buckland, MA. “Hobblebush berries were ripening when seen August 24th.” | Photo: Judy Sweet
August 2023 Photo: Paul Fillion
Pittsburg, NH. “Healthy northern pitcher plant with wasp.” | Photo: Paul Fillion
August 2023 Photo: Tim Larsen
Moretown, VT. “Deer in its element.” | Photo: Tim Larsen
August 2023 Photo: Brian Kerwin
Wanakena, NY. “How did this tree get so contorted?” | Photo: Brian Kerwin
August 2023 Photo: Jill DeVito
Rockingham, VT. “Ringneck snake (spots on the belly are unusual for the northern population).” | Photo: Jill DeVito

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