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January 4th, 2019 Reader Photo Gallery

December 2018

In your December photos, a young piebald deer encountered a mature buck, an otter crossed the snow at sunrise, and a horse and rider travelled an old road-turned-trail. Photographer Ken Hatch discovered fossils in Vermont’s Button Bay State park, and Alex Barrett shared a sped-up video of a forwarder collecting white pine (see his Facebook link from photo seven).

We’re now looking for January 2019 photos that relate to northeastern forests. These could be images of people, plants, wildlife, weather, forest management, wood processing, educational activities, recreation, art, landscapes, or events. To submit your photos, please use the form at the bottom of this page. Thank you!

Submission deadline for next gallery: Thursday, January 31, 2019

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Hobart, NY. “Bobcat takes the high road in the western Catskills.”
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Marcellus, NY. “Eastern screech owl keeps watch over the woods.”
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Plymouth, NH. “Night grooming on Cannon Mountain.”
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Ferrisburgh, VT. “Gastropod fossils in Crown Point limestone at Button Bay State Park. Came over here for a walk today because I knew there would be no icy snow and we got lucky to find these.”
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Lyoming County, PA. “Improvement cut in a northern hardwood stand on State Game Land 134.”
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Strafford, VT. “Otter at sunrise.”
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Reading, VT. “A beautiful forwarder load of white pine headed for the landing. To see a neat video clip of this, check it out here on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/longviewforest/videos/205522897027184/”
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Snydertown, PA. First of two game camera images showing interaction of a spike horn and mature buck. Notice what appear to be urine marks on the mature buck’s forehead, which may attract does and deter young males. (See: https://northernwoodlands.org/articles/article/scrape)
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Continued: Scenting behavior.
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East Wallingford, VT. “Twenty inches of white cement. Pines bowing, most everything else breaking.”
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Orrs Island, ME. “Red squirrel on high alert.”
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Brewster, NY. “Frozen stream.”
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Ashland, ME. “Feeding time.” The blood on this eagle is from its prey.
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Dalton, NH. “Balsam fir (Abies balsamea) buds.”
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Montpelier, VT. “A pair of pileated woodpeckers enjoying a few wild grapes near the confluence of the North Branch and the main stem of the Winooski.”
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Brewster, NY. “Woodland ice sculpture.”
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Marcellus, NY. “Stare down!” This gray squirrel means business.
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South Williamsport, PA. Unlike its New York cousin, this gray squirrel seems a bit more relaxed. “Captured by a homemade trail camera based on a Sony point-and-shoot camera.”
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Ashland, ME. “Ready for winter.”
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Bethel, VT. ”Icicles hanging over a small brook two days after a major rain event which occurred on the first day of winter.”
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Lyoming County, PA. “Salvaged white ash logs on the Loyalsock State Forest. The trees were killed by the emerald ash borer.”
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Montpelier, VT. “New snow on red oak.”
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Dalton, NH. Magical miniature lichen forest.”
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Bethel, VT. “Birch polypores on a dead gray birch. We have seen a lot of these over the last several years as the gray birch die out and other trees take over.”
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Woodstock, CT. “Polypore ‘flower’ at the Still River Basin.”
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Ashland, ME. Buck in snow.
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Plymouth, NH. “Cannon Mountain in moonlight.”
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Snydertown, PA. First of two images. “Piebald buck captured on game camera.”
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Snydertown, PA. That same piebald facing a mature buck.
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Dalton, NH. “Cup lichen (Cladonia) reappears during December thaw.” Appropriately for a December photo gallery, this type of lichen is a main food for reindeer.
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Hancock, VT. “Moss and lichen on a sugar maple at the Texas Falls picnic area, Green Mountain National Forest on December 10, 2018.”
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Marcellus, NY. “Early ice found in the woods.”
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Snydertown, PA. “A foggy midmorning in my friends’ woods.”
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Dalton, NH. “Hoarfrost on Dalton Mountain.”
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Marcellus, NY. A beaver pond scene.
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Montpelier, VT. “Junco in winter garden.”
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Dalton, NH. “All natural holiday decorations tucked in on one of the woods trails.”
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Brewster, NY. “Ducks in open water.”
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Lyoming County, PA. “Horse and rider on an old haul road.”
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Bethel, VT. “Leafy liverworts, lichen, and moss on a red maple on December 10th, 2018. The snow which now covers the ground in our area may hide a lot, but there is still a lot of life to see in the woods if we look around.”

Submit Your Photos to the Reader Gallery

We’re always thrilled to see what’s happening in the Northeast through your eyes. Each season, we feature approximately 50 reader-submitted images in our online gallery. To be considered, please send us photos taken within the past month.

You may submit up to three photos per person. While we can’t publish every submission, we carefully consider each one.

When reviewing submissions, we look for:

  • A variety of topics and subjects
  • High-quality, well-composed images
  • Good resolution (prefer images at least 1000 pixels on the longer edge)
  • Geographic diversity across the region

Before submitting, please read and agree to the terms and conditions below. These give Northern Woodlands a perpetual license to use your photographs. If your image isn’t selected for the gallery but we’d like to feature it elsewhere, we’ll reach out to you.

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