Your February photos showed mostly quiet scenes. “Snow moons” were favorite photo subjects, and dogs were also well represented (Happy Birthday, Cruiser!). In Warwick, New York, Steven Myruski peered down into an old well, while in Reading, Vermont, a truck headed out, bearing a load of hardwood pulp.
February 2020
Hanover, NH. “Moonlight snowshoe hike and bonfire in Hanover's Slade Brook Wilderness on Feb. 1.” | Photo: Hugh Mellert
Parkman, OH. “An uncommon visitor - long-eared owl.” | Photo: Tami Gingrich
Waitsfield, VT. “Harvest pile.” | Photo: Chris Woods
Northumberland County, PA. “The super full snow moon on Feb. 8-9, before the clouds thickened and a quick layer of snow fell.” | Photo: Bonnie Honaberger
Warwick, NY. “Well in the woods.” | Photo: Steven Myruski
Plymouth, NH. “Snow fur - remains of white-tailed deer.” | Photo: Eric D'Aleo
South Williamsport, PA. “Gray squirrel portrait taken by a homebrewed trail camera.” | Photo: Charlie Schwarz
Waitsfield, VT. “Bringing a load across the Mad River.” | Photo: Chris Woods
Dalton, NH. “February ‘snow moon’ and alpenglow through apple orchard with Kilkenny Mountains.” | Photo: AM Dannis
Camillus, NY. “The winter shortcut.” | Photo: Susan E. March
Lincoln, VT. “A red fox busy scraping through crusted snow to eat apple remnants.” | Photo: Harriet Szanto
Benezett, PA. “A view of some of the elk herd in Benezett, PA. There were about 50 in this herd...cows and spike bulls.” | Photo: Bonnie Honaberger
Benezett, PA. “A second picture of elk…The herd is rebounding tremendously.” | Photo: Bonnie Honaberger
Reading, VT. “On a snowy morning, a log truck heads out with a load of hardwood pulp.” | Photo: Alex Barrett
Lake Luzerne, NY. “Sunny February day on the Hudson River.” | Photo: Rodney Johnson
Dalton, NH. “Club moss towers above the snow in a light winter.” | Photo: AM Dannis
West Gardiner, ME. “Tufted titmice enjoying lunch together.” | Photo: David Gomeau
Grafton, NH. “Nice cluster of hemlock shelf varnish, also known as reishi.” | Photo: Deb L. Clough
Marcellus, NY. Hoarfrost. | Photo: Susan E. March
South Williamsport, PA. “In mid-February some of the basswood trees in northcentral Pennsylvania are still holding their fruit, others have shed all their fruit.” | Photo: Charlie Schwarz
Chardon, OH. Black bear tracks. | Photo: Tami Gingrich
Dalton, NH. “February rain storm creates ice jewels.” | Photo: AM Dannis
Billerica, MA. “Frozen windshield art.” | Photo: Carol Conant
Thetford, VT. This raccoon was caught on a game camera, sniffing around a pile of rocks that cover a chipmunk burrow. | Photo: Tig Tillinghast
Whitefield, ME. “Weary Pond.” | Photo: Tony Marple
Lake Luzerne, NY. “All great engineers don’t go to college!” | Photo: Rodney Johnson
Ashland, ME. “State bird.” | Photo: Lonnie S. Jandreau
South Williamsport, PA. “Ice fishing at Pennsylvania's Hills Creek State Park in Tioga County.” | Photo: Charlie Schwarz
Wells Harbor, ME. “Beautiful pitch pine tree.” | Photo: Randi Kosmes
Waterford, VT. “A freshly excavated cavity hammered out by a pileated woodpecker after a meal of carpenter ants nested in the rotted base of this fir tree.” | Photo: Gordon Gould
Snydertown, PA. “I was very fortunate to take a hike when conditions were just perfect for frost flowers/ribbon ice to form.” | Photo: Bonnie Honaberger
Milan, NH. “Cruiser enjoying an early morning walk on his first birthday.” | Photo: Todd Caron
Chardon, OH. “Snowball fight! River otter on trail camera.” | Photo: Tami Gingrich
East Wallingford, VT. “Just after dawn. Moon through icicles, showing that morning has broken but winter has not!” | Photo: Carolyn
Wilmington, VT. “Cut-to-length harvesting in spruce strip cuts.” | Photo: Alex Barrett
West Gardiner, ME. “Female cardinal making do in an ice storm.” | Photo: David Gomeau
Rye, NH. Fisher. “I have a special place in my 40 acres of woods and wetlands behind Odiorne Point State Park in New Hampshire that I dispose of carcasses of game birds I've shot. In just a couple of days, my camera trap caught photos there of a fisher cat, coyote, red tail hawk, and of course fox, raccoon and some deer ambling by. | Photo: Mike Thiel
South Williamsport, PA. “This vernal pool on the Glacial Pools Preserve will host breeding salamanders in a few weeks.” | Photo: Charlie Schwarz
Lake Luzerne, NY. “Blue skies, nothing but blue skies.” | Photo: Rodney Johnson
Hanover, NH. “Ice globes formed after winter rain high water followed by a hard freeze.” | Photo: Hugh Mellert
Manlius, NY. “Limestone wall winds through the forest.” | Photo: Susan E. March
Dalton, NH. “Lungwort lichen in winter as seen in stream valley.” | Photo: AM Dannis
South Williamsport, PA. “Pine Creek Gorge from Leonard Harrison State Park - Tioga County PA.” | Photo: Charlie Schwarz
Hanover, NH. “Frozen waterfall on Slade Brook in Hanover at 7 degrees.” | Photo: Hugh Mellert
West Gardiner, ME. “Nature's beauty is often the most overlooked.” | Photo: David Gomeau
Mt. Washington, NH. “Mt Madison on our way up Washington.” | Photo: Jennifer Mayhew
Dalton, NH. “Ice at the ‘beech.’” | Photo: AM Dannis
Plymouth, NH. “Ice bells.” | Photo: Eric D'Aleo
South Williamsport, PA. “Wood isn't the only energy source on Armenia Mountain in Pennsylvania's Bradford and Tioga Counties, its 67 turbines make it the largest wind farm in the state.” | Photo: Charlie Schwarz
Fort Kent, ME. “Finley the Australian Shepherd checking out the snow depth in northern Maine.” | Photo: Anna Lewis
Plymouth, NH. “A robin feeds on the remains of winter berry holly.” | Photo: Eric D'Aleo
Thetford, VT. One of the “joys” of a February thaw: an old deer carcass surfaces from the snow, and the dog tries to sneak body parts into the house. | Photo: Anonymous
Weld, ME. A large conk, discovered while snow shoeing. | Photo: Carol Conant
Marcellus, NY. “Face in the root of an old tree.” | Photo: Susan E. March
Dover, NH. “Full snow moon through dogwood tree after ice storm.” | Photo: Sue Stone