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July 7th, 2015 Reader Photo Gallery

June 2015

This June was an exceptionally wet month in the Northeast, and many of your photos had a water theme. Love was in the air for promethea moths, and sawdust was in the air for a kid taking his first Game of Logging class. Other common subjects included birds, flowers, and babies: from Cooper’s hawk chicks to fox kits, the month was full of new life.

We’re now on the hunt for July 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.

June 2015 Photo: Helene Grogan
Buckland, MA: A black bear cools off on a hot day. Credit: Helene Grogan | Photo: Helene Grogan
June 2015 Photo: Helene Grogan
Buckland, MA: When that bear comes out of the water, he’s likely to nosh on this. Jack-in-the-pulpits are a favorite summer bear food. Credit: Helene Grogan | Photo: Helene Grogan
June 2015 Photo: Jim Robbins
Searsmont, ME: June is “fox month” when kits come out of their burrows, and you’ll often see their (typically nocturnal) parents hunting in the daytime. Credit: Jim Robbins | Photo: Jim Robbins
June 2015 Photo: Anne Campbell
Starksboro, VT: Water beads on a white oak leaf. According to the Regional Climate Center at Cornell, much of the Northeast received more than 130% normal precipitation (in some areas, a lot higher). Credit: Anne Campbell | Photo: Anne Campbell
June 2015 Photo: Mary Stowe
Hinsdale, NH: Mountain laurel blooming along the Wantasiquet Trail. Credit: Mary Stowe | Photo: Mary Stowe
June 2015 Photo: Anonymous
Haverhill, NH: Also in bloom: early azaleas, Rhododendron prinophyllum. Credit: Anonymous | Photo: Anonymous
June 2015 Photo: John Snell
Montpelier, VT: A hairy woodpecker feeding at the photographer’s mason bee house. “I ended up having to put some large mesh screening over it . . . fascinating to have seen this opportunist at work!” Credit: John Snell | Photo: John Snell
June 2015 Photo: Meghan McCarthy McPhaul
Franconia, NH: A game camera placed at the edge of field catches the attention of a young buck. Credit: Meghan McCarthy McPhaul | Photo: Meghan McCarthy McPhaul
June 2015 Photo: Anonymous
Southern New England: Once more unto the beach! This path through a scrub oak stand leads to the ocean. Credit: Anonymous | Photo: Anonymous
June 2015 Photo: Tig Tillinghast
Thetford, VT: First of a series of images, documenting a Cooper’s hawk nest. Here, consulting forester Donn Downey checks a camera mounted about 60 feet above forest floor, roughly 100 feet across from, and twenty feet below, the nest tree. Credit: Tig Tillinghast | Photo: Tig Tillinghast
June 2015 Photo: Tig Tillinghast
Continued: A parent feeds a young chick, one of five in this nest. | Photo: Tig Tillinghast
June 2015 Photo: Tig Tillinghast
Continued: The parent pulled apart prey, then dropped the scraps of meat into chicks’ mouths. Notice the developing feathers. | Photo: Tig Tillinghast
June 2015 Photo: Tig Tillinghast
Continued: Chipmunks were a staple food, and seemingly in endless supply. The hawks consistently fed their chicks about every 45 minutes. | Photo: Tig Tillinghast
June 2015 Photo: Tig Tillinghast
Continued: FEED ME. | Photo: Tig Tillinghast
June 2015 Photo: Tig Tillinghast
Continued: The largest of the five chicks stretches his wings and hops to exercise his flight muscles. | Photo: Tig Tillinghast
June 2015 Photo: Tig Tillinghast
Continued: This photo is from three days later, and was taken within a minute of the largest chick’s first flight. He landed in an unoccupied nest (his parents had built several) about 20 yards away. Later that day, he was spotted back in the nest begging for food. | Photo: Tig Tillinghast
June 2015 Photo: Tig Tillinghast
Continued: Parent and fledgling. | Photo: Tig Tillinghast
June 2015 Photo: Tig Tillinghast
Continued: Fledgling action shot. | Photo: Tig Tillinghast
June 2015 Photo: Tig Tillinghast
Continued: By the end of the month, the chicks were well on their way to looking like adults, although they remained dependent on their parents for food. | Photo: Tig Tillinghast
June 2015 Photo: Holly Drew
Vershire, VT: What are those beautiful flowers growing by the pond? Wait, let’s check our phenology calendar . . . Credit: Holly Drew | Photo: Holly Drew
June 2015 Photo: Northern Woodlands
Northern Woodlands Season's Main Events phenology calendar entry for June 21: "Snowy lady's slippers are blooming in fens and semi-wooded swamps." | Photo: Northern Woodlands
June 2015 Photo: Anonymous
Strafford, VT: Here’s another image of showy lady's slippers, and a little girl, this time in a bog in the Strafford Town Forest. Credit: Anonymous | Photo: Anonymous
June 2015 Photo: Helene Grogan
Buckland, MA: “Red efts are everywhere after the rain!” Credit: Helene Grogan | Photo: Helene Grogan
June 2015 Photo: Devon Galvan
Cumberland, ME: Another result of wet weather: happy slugs. Credit: Devon Galvan | Photo: Devon Galvan
June 2015 Photo: Sophie Zyla
Beacon Falls, CT: At a bird banding station, this yellow-billed cuckoo made an appearance. Credit: Sophie Zyla | Photo: Sophie Zyla
June 2015 Photo: Mike Duquette
Lamoine, ME: Another warm weather visitor to the Northeast: the magnolia warbler. Credit: Mike Duquette | Photo: Mike Duquette
June 2015 Photo: Elise Tillinghast
Acworth, NH: This workshop, hosted by Fred and Ellie Ernst, focused on young forest management for birds. The Ruffed Grouse Society, UNH Cooperative Extension, and NRCS all participated. Credit: Elise Tillinghast | Photo: Elise Tillinghast
June 2015 Photo: Elise Tillinghast
Continued: Here, Matt Tarr (UNH) helps attendees identify birdsong, and discusses different species’ habitat needs. Credit: Elise Tillinghast | Photo: Elise Tillinghast
June 2015 Photo: Devon Gulvan
Cumberland, ME: Check out the funky way that the hairs on this damselfly’s legs contrast with the fingerprint. Credit: Devon Gulvan | Photo: Devon Gulvan
June 2015 Photo: Mary Jane Grace
Hinesburg, VT: Turtles were on the move in June, laying eggs that will hatch in late summer and early fall. Here, the umbrella method of helping a snapping turtle across a road. Credit: Mary Jane Grace | Photo: Mary Jane Grace
June 2015 Photo: John Sutton
Magoon Hill, Corinth, VT: This black-throated blue warbler is very suspicious about you, and thinks you should leave. Credit: John Sutton | Photo: John Sutton
June 2015 Photo: John Sutton
Corinth, VT: An American redstart, photographed near the confluence of the Waits and Connecticut rivers. Credit: John Sutton | Photo: John Sutton
June 2015 Photo: Charlie Najimy
Savoy, MA: “My 15-year-old son in Level 1 Game of Logging training.” Credit: Charlie Najimy | Photo: Charlie Najimy
June 2015 Photo: Anne Campbell
Starksboro, VT: Underwater scene from a spring by Lewis Creek. Credit: Anne Campbell | Photo: Anne Campbell
June 2015 Photo: Anonymous
Strafford, VT: This is a Ganoderma mushroom (also called a reishi), probably G. tusugae. Notice its varnish-like surface. Credit: Anonymous | Photo: Anonymous
June 2015 Photo: Meghan McCarthy McPhaul
Franconia, NH: The brilliantly colored four lined plant bug (Poecilopcapsus lineatus) “There were two of them, scuttling from the top of the clover leaf to the underside.” Credit: Meghan McCarthy McPhaul | Photo: Meghan McCarthy McPhaul
June 2015 Photo: Mary Stowe
Williamsville, VT: Stone steps on the Yellow Trail at The Manitou Project. Credit: Mary Stowe | Photo: Mary Stowe
June 2015 Photo: Shane Gurney
Eaton, NH: Hiding in plain sight. A gray treefrog is almost perfectly camouflaged on a red pine. Credit: Shane Gurney | Photo: Shane Gurney
June 2015 Photo: Tig Tillinghast
Strafford, VT: The reeds have eyes. An American bittern. Credit: Tig Tillinghast | Photo: Tig Tillinghast
June 2015 Photo: Meghan McCarthy McPhaul
Series of two photos. Franconia, NH: “Female promethea moth we discovered one morning on our way out the door. She stayed there all day. By late afternoon there were at least three males dive-bombing the porch trying to get to her . . . I moved her to the base of a pin cherry tree in the yard.” Credit: Meghan McCarthy McPhaul | Photo: Meghan McCarthy McPhaul
June 2015 Photo: Meghan McCarthy McPhaul
Continued: “A few minutes later, Romeo arrived. This shows the male and female with joined abdomens. They stayed like this for at least an hour. We've seen several male promethea moths flying around crazily in late afternoons since then...They don't float gracefully like butterflies. More of a desperate, pheromone-fueled flight.” | Photo: Meghan McCarthy McPhaul
June 2015 Photo: Vanessa David
Stamford, CT: A northern flicker feeds a chick. Credit: Vanessa David | Photo: Vanessa David
June 2015 Photo: Anonymous
Southern VT: At last, a guaranteed way to protect hardwood saplings from deer browse. Credit: Anonymous | Photo: Anonymous
June 2015 Photo: Mary Stowe
Woodford State Park, VT: Sunlight on the Adams Reservoir. Credit: Mary Stowe | Photo: Mary Stowe
June 2015 Photo: Emily Rowe
Bradford, VT: New friends take in the view from the Wright Mountain observation hut. Credit: Emily Rowe | Photo: Emily Rowe

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