December 2014 - January 2015
Nov. 25, 2014 - Central Massachusetts - Witnessed by a game camera, a bobcat descends a beaver dam. Credit: Janet Pesaturo.
Dec. 6, 2014 - Waitsfield, Vermont - This ermine just lost a bloody battle to capture a bluejay (that’s the jay’s blood, not the ermine’s). Credit: Gib and Sue Geiger.
(continued: credit: Gib and Sue Geiger) The ermine accepts a consolation prize of frozen mouse…
(continued: credit: Gib and Sue Geiger) …and disappears down a rodent burrow for a private meal.
Dec. 7, 2014 - Norfolk, Connecticut - Participants in the Great Mountain Forest’s annual wreath making weekend. The GMF (www.greatmountainforest.org) encompasses approximately 6,000 conserved acres in northwestern Connecticut, and is managed to promote forest research and education. Credit: Jean Bronson.
Dec. 21, 2014 - Starksboro, Vermont - Steve Eustis and daughter Sarah select a Christmas tree and kids' Christmas tree - both red spruce from their family forest. Credit: Cathy Eustis.
Dec. 21, 2014 - Starksboro, Vermont – A red squirrel midden, discovered during that same Eustis family trek. Credit: Cathy and Steve Eustis.
Dec. 22, 2014 - Madison, Maine - A white pine seedling bravely pokes up from snow, surrounded by squirrel tracks. This was taken on the Doty family woodlot. Credit: Mark Doty.
Jan. 4, 2015 - Madison, Maine - A skier enjoys the ice on Wesserunsett Lake. Credit: Mark Doty.
Jan. 13, 2015 - Thetford, Vermont - A bluebird enjoys a winter snack of invasive multiflora rose. Credit: Tig Tillinghast.
Jan. 14, 2015 - Thetford, Vermont - An owl swoops down on its prey. Credit: Tig Tillinghast.
(continued: credit: Tig Tillinghast) Liftoff…
(contined: credit: Tig Tillinghast) …and airborne. The owl flew off to a nearby tree branch, where it tore apart and quickly swallowed its meal.
Jan. 20, 2015 - Hanover, New Hampshire - Red oak veneer, scaled and piled. Credit: Jeffrey Smith.
Jan. 20, 2015 - Canaan, New Hampshire - A brand new skidder, just delivered for its first timber harvest. The skidder is owned by logger David Rondeau, and the wood lot is managed by forester John O’Brien. Credit: Larry Gould.
Jan. 20, 2015 - Canaan, New Hampshire - A large pile of chipping stock from the same timber harvest, piled in a frozen hay field. Credit: Larry Gould.
Jan. 22, 2015 - Natick, Massachusetts - A frozen stream carves an enticing path through the woods. Credit: Phil Benjamin.
Jan. 22, 2015 - Franconia, New Hampshire - This doe has been a regular visitor to the photographer’s compost pile this winter (ruining the garden fence in the process). On this day, she made at least four separate trips into the garden to nosh on carrot peels and other kitchen scraps. Credit: Meghan McCarthy McPhaul.
(continued: credit: Meghan McCarthy McPhaul) Doe leaping over the garden fence.
Jan. 22, 2015 - Thetford, Vermont - A hairy woodpecker flicks its sticky tongue into a snag. Credit: Tig Tillinghast.
Jan. 24, 2015 - Southwestern Vermont - Must be a door to Narnia in there somewhere…kids have fun with a giant stand of invasive phragmites. Credit: Anonymous.
Jan. 24, 2015 - Paul Smiths, New York - Students in Professor Celia Evans' winter ecology class at Paul Smith's College. Outdoor labs include intensive observations of wildlife sign and habitat, as well as data collection focused on snowshoe hare. Students also learn Nordic skiing. Credit: Celia Evans.
Jan. 28, 2015 - Dalton, Massachusetts - A snow angel (of death) left by a bird of prey. Credit: Dicken Crane.
Jan. 29, 2015 - Dalton, Massachusetts - A winter deer bed. Credit: Dicken Crane.
Jan. 30, 2015 - Dalton, Massachusetts - A disturbed patch of snow, where deer have been digging for acorns. Credit: Dicken Crane.