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March 3rd, 2016 Reader Photo Gallery

February 2016

Your February photos featured carnivore valentines - coyotes, foxes, and bobcats all paired up. Prayer flags glowed on a gray birch, a hermit warbler showed up in Connecticut, and Todd Bauman made a spectacular Groundhog Day climb. Four inches of snowmelt? Let's go ice fishing!

We’re now on the hunt for March 2016 photos. We encourage you to share images about anything that relates to the Northeast’s forests, and that you take this month. Here are examples – but by no means an exclusive list – of photo topics that fit this category: nature, weather, education activities (any age), forest management/logging, recreation, wood manufacture, art, workshops, events. As long as it relates in some way to the Northeast’s forests, we’ll consider it.

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Mount Katahdin, ME: “The Knife Edge on Mount Katahdin in Baxter State Park. This photo was taken on February 2 after a solo summit on a rare bright, clear day! Best Groundhog Day ever!” Credit: Todd Bauman
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Southern VT: “The first night of our 2016 sugaring season.” Credit: Dave Mance III
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First of two photos. Preston, CT: A bobcat licks its lips after feeding on a dead deer. Credit: Bridget Park
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Continued: After the first bobcat fed on the deer carcass, it returned about an hour later with a companion. Credit: Bridget Park
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Montpelier, VT: Snow on a branch. Credit: Ivan Davydov
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Lempster, NH: A scene from a tour of a timber harvesting operation at the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests’ Ashuelot River Headwaters Forest. Here the group discusses the value of open areas for wildlife. Credit: Susan Lichty
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Saint Ignace, MI: This photo of a male cardinal was taken on February 18th in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Credit: Ruth LaChapelle
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Strafford, VT: Desiccated jelly fungus. Credit: Elise Tillinghast
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Lamoine, ME: A view from the porch. Credit: Lynne Duquette
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Southern Adirondacks, NY: Author Don Wharton shared this image of deer crossing a river (you can see more of his photos in a past game camera blog on our website). Credit: Don Wharton
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Finger Lakes National Forest, NY: “Snow's gone, where are our taps?” Sugar maples along a stone wall. Credit: John and Suzanne Gregoire
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Ashfield, MA: “Not sure what happened here, but it looks like it was explosive.” Credit: Helene Grogan
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Preston, CT: “This photo is from a series in which a female coyote is feeding on a deer carcass and there are two male coyotes fighting for the right to breed her. This one is the victor. FYI - the female coyote never stopped feeding during the entire exchange.” Credit: Bridget Park
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Rye, NH: “Sticky snow.” Credit: Tom
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Bear Mountain, Lempster, NH: “British soldiers at attention in the sun!” Credit: Susan Lichty
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Otego, NY: “Blue heron, not spooked for once!” Credit: Michael Wilson
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Brattleboro, VT: Whetstone Brook. Credit: Mary Stowe
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Canaan, NH: Ice fishing on Canaan Street Lake. “There's about four inches of standing water in places on top of the ice after the rain/melt yesterday, but there are still dozens of people out there fishing.” Credit: Patrick White
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Concord, NH: A red oak leaf in snow. Credit: Teresa Gladstone
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First of two photos. Lake George, NY: “This stump is often used by fishers as a scent marking post. Recently the coyotes have started using it, too.” Credit: Juliette Gaudier-Jabaut
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Continued: Another view of the scent marking. Credit: Juliette Gaudier-Jabout
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North Conway, NH: Old Mill Brook. Credit: Kevin MacMillan
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Southern VT: “Valentine's Day, 2016. 7 a.m. 19 below.” Credit: Dave Mance III
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Strafford, VT: A Valentine’s Day tree. Credit: Elise Tillinghast
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Presque Isle, ME: Ready to run, a deer peers out between the trees. Credit: Michael Gudreau
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Tiverton, RI: “Fire and ice.” Credit: Gary Plunkett
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Southern VT: “That pretty blue time in the evening through sugaring steam.” Credit: Giom
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Buckland, MA: “A pair of red foxes have been hanging around our area all month.” Credit: Helene Grogan
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Jericho, VT: “A story told in snow.” Credit: Jessica Dion
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First of two photos. Thetford, VT: A peek inside the winter home of a goldenrod gall fly. The larva overwinters in the gall, pupates, and crawls out as an adult fly in the spring. Credit: Tig Tillinghast
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Continued: The photographer’s family tapes the gall back together, being sure to avoid covering the future exit hole. Credit: Tig Tillinghast
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Fairfax, VT: A sugarhouse scene. Credit: Alan Day
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Brattleboro, VT: “Sky and puddles.” Credit: Mary Stowe
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Beacon Falls, CT: Rare visit of a hermit warbler. These birds typically appear only in Washington, Oregon, California, and Central America. According to the photographer, this is only the second one on record with the Connecticut Ornithological Association. “The first (hypothetical) [was] in May 1977.” Credit: Sophie Zyla
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Beacon Falls, CT: “This is not winter in Mexico! Instead of a pretty portrait, I decided to share an image of how difficult a New England winter freeze can be on a small warbler looking for insects.” Credit: Sophie Zyla
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Castleton, VT: “Ice on branches at the top of Goshen Mountain, February 27, 2016.” Credit: Mary Droege
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Jericho, VT: A beautiful study of ice and water. Credit: Elliott
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Brattleboro, VT: Lichen and sprouting moss. Credit: Mary Stowe
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Redford, NY: That gnarly old dead gray birch is lichening its new colors! Credit: Karen Racette
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Strafford, VT: Grouse bed, scat, and tracks. Credit: Elise Tillinghast
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Acworth, NH: Old mill site, headwaters of the Cold River. Credit: Susan Lichty
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Buckland, MA: “Barred owl in a bare tree.” Credit: Helene Grogan
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First of two photos. Paul Smith’s College, NY: Professor Celia Evans reviews data with a student during an introductory winter ecology class. Credit: Elise Tillinghast
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Continued: An impromptu bud identification review during that same Paul Smith’s class. Credit: Elise Tillinghast
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Readsboro, VT: An apple tree stubbornly holds onto its fruit in the snow. Credit: Teddy W. Hopkins
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Lamoine, ME: “Red squirrel’s winter cabin.” Credit: Mike Duquette
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Buckand, MA: “High winds the day after a snowfall brought it all down again.” Credit: Helene Grogan
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Strafford, VT: A four tree hang-up by the beaver lodge. Credit: Elise Tillinghast
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Randolph, VT: A study of ice, sunlight, and leaves. Credit: Jim DiStefano
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Etna, NH: “Sun setting on the last day of the month. Goodbye February!” Credit: MK Beach

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