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August 6th, 2015 Reader Photo Gallery

July 2015

Your July photos revealed bears on the move, young birds just out of the nest, and mountain sandwort in bloom. Paper birch cake was on the menu at the Hubbard Brook Research Foundation, Maine teachers explored the working forest, and a crow struck a creepy, backlit pose.

We’re now on the hunt for August 2015 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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Stratton, VT: The view from a canoeist’s campsite on Grout Pond. Credit: Mary Stowe
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North Woodstock, NH: No mixed feelings about cutting this tree. This paper birch cake was made by Alison Chase of Boxford and served at the Hubbard Brook Research Foundation’s annual dinner on July 7. Credit: Anonymous
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Marshfield, VT: First of two images. A bear encounters an unlucky birdfeeder. Credit: Adelaide Tyrol
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Continued: Notice how far the bear’s tongue has extended.
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Darien, CT: A profusion of polypore mushrooms grows at the base of a beech tree. Credit: Vanessa David
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Lamoine, ME: A raccoon feasts on sunflower seeds. Credit: Mike Duquette
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Brattleboro, VT: Glossy white Indian Pipes. These non-photosynthesizing plants make their living by attaching to mycorrhizal fungi at the base of living trees. The cups of their floral “pipes” turn upward once they’re fertilized. Credit: Andrea Tirrell
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Middlesex, VT: “A visit from a gray fox on the morning of July 27th.” Credit: Susan Bitterman
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Washington County, ME: First of a series of images, taken during a Maine TREE Foundation Forests of Maine Teacher Tour, that also included a Project Learning Tree Workshop. A forester uses a chart to explain tree growth cycles in a shelterwood forest owned by the Baskahegan Company. Credit: Anonymous
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Continued: Tour participants discuss a 55 windmill installation operated by SunEdison.
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Continued: This small clear cut removed unhealthy Jack pines, and met the landowner’s goal of improving habitat for grouse and woodcock. The land is managed by Wagner Forest Management.
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Continued: A delimber in action.
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Continued: With just one grab, a giant crane removes the contents of a logging truck at the Fulghum Fibres mill in Baileyville.
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Fairlee, VT: A buck with a drooping antler. Asymmetrical antlers are fairly common, but this is an extreme example. Credit: David Matthews
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Shelburne, MA: “A turkey vulture drying its wings after a foggy morning.” Credit: Helene Grogan
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Franconia, NH: A baby wood frog, one of many found hopping across a wet spot in a field. Credit: Meghan McCarthy McPhaul
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Thetford, VT: Now you see a deer… Credit: Tig Tillinghast
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Fall River, MA: And now you don’t. Credit: Dennis Santos
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Cumberland, ME: A frequent sight in late summer: common milkweed. Credit: Devon Gulvan
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North Pembroke, NH: A coyote seems to analyze the game camera. Credit: Aaron Fitzgerald
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Fairlee, VT: A black bear sow and cub. Credit: David Matthews
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Derby, VT: A purple fringed bog-orchid, discovered deep in the moist forest between Hazen’s Notch and Jay Pass. Credit: Barbara Mackay
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Central Massachusetts: Mink race by a trail camera. Credit: Janet Pesaturo
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Stratton, VT: A summer storm gathers over Grout Pond in Green Mountain National Forest. Credit: Mary Stowe
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Buckland, MA: “Common yellowthroat fledgling on purple hostas, just after leaving the nest.” Credit: Helene Grogan
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Sunderland, VT: Masses of blue-bead lily berries at Branch Pond in Green Mountain National Forest. Credit: Mary Stowe
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Central Massachusetts: A black bear noses around a beaver dam. Credit: Janet Pesaturo
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East Corinth, VT: First of two images. July is a great month to watch fledglings. Here, a juvenile chestnut-sided warbler. Credit: Kim Wind
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Continued: Perhaps it was waiting for a food delivery from this adult. Chestnut-sided warblers are typically found in shrubby, early successional growth areas. They’ll be here for another month or so, then head to Central America.
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Greenwood, ME: Eagles nesting for the first time in at least 25 years on an island in South Pond. Credit: Emily Rowe
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Castleton, VT: The photographer found a snake skin in a tree, then looked around and discovered what they believe to be a black rat snake seven feet up on a hemlock. “We saw this with 15 middle school students during an ecology camp outing! Wonderful experience for all!” Credit: Mary Droege
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Franconia, NH: Low light conditions and chance composition create an image that resembles the book jacket for a novel - one you probably shouldn’t read alone at night. Credit: Meghan McCarthy McPhaul
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Strafford, VT: A puff of cattail pollen. Credit: Tig Tillinghast
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Thetford, VT: This photo is a continuation of the June photo gallery series on Cooper’s hawks. A parent (probably Mom) feeds scraps of meat to the fledglings. Credit: Tig Tillinghast
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Pownal, VT: A thrush nest (probably a hermit thrush) tucked into the forest floor. Credit: Cliff Choly
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Buckland, MA: A juvenile eagle in silhouette. “This was the last day it was spotted near the nest, and the last day the parents were seen feeding it.” Credit: Helene Grogan
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Cumberland, ME: A close study of leaf in decay. Credit: Devon Gulvan
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Bretton Woods, VT: Sandwort (also called Greenland stitchwort and mountain sandplant) grows in a cluster on Mount Washington. “This is one of the few tundra plants that blooms all summer.” Credit: Barbara Mackay
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Central VT: Bur-reed, a common wetland plant, and common food for muskrats, waterfowl and other wildlife. Credit: Anonymous
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Central Massachusetts: A bobcat, perhaps one of this year’s kittens. Credit: Janet Pesaturo

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