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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.

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Buckland, MA: A black bear cools off on a hot day. Credit: Helene Grogan
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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
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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
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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
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Hinsdale, NH: Mountain laurel blooming along the Wantasiquet Trail. Credit: Mary Stowe
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Haverhill, NH: Also in bloom: early azaleas, Rhododendron prinophyllum. Credit: Anonymous
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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
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Franconia, NH: A game camera placed at the edge of field catches the attention of a young buck. Credit: Meghan McCarthy McPhaul
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Southern New England: Once more unto the beach! This path through a scrub oak stand leads to the ocean. Credit: Anonymous
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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
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Continued: A parent feeds a young chick, one of five in this nest.
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Continued: The parent pulled apart prey, then dropped the scraps of meat into chicks’ mouths. Notice the developing feathers.
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Continued: Chipmunks were a staple food, and seemingly in endless supply. The hawks consistently fed their chicks about every 45 minutes.
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Continued: FEED ME.
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Continued: The largest of the five chicks stretches his wings and hops to exercise his flight muscles.
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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.
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Continued: Parent and fledgling.
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Continued: Fledgling action shot.
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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.
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Vershire, VT: What are those beautiful flowers growing by the pond? Wait, let’s check our phenology calendar . . . Credit: Holly Drew
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Northern Woodlands Season's Main Events phenology calendar entry for June 21: "Snowy lady's slippers are blooming in fens and semi-wooded swamps."
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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
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Buckland, MA: “Red efts are everywhere after the rain!” Credit: Helene Grogan
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Cumberland, ME: Another result of wet weather: happy slugs. Credit: Devon Galvan
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Beacon Falls, CT: At a bird banding station, this yellow-billed cuckoo made an appearance. Credit: Sophie Zyla
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Lamoine, ME: Another warm weather visitor to the Northeast: the magnolia warbler. Credit: Mike Duquette
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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
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Continued: Here, Matt Tarr (UNH) helps attendees identify birdsong, and discusses different species’ habitat needs. Credit: Elise Tillinghast
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Cumberland, ME: Check out the funky way that the hairs on this damselfly’s legs contrast with the fingerprint. Credit: Devon Gulvan
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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
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Magoon Hill, Corinth, VT: This black-throated blue warbler is very suspicious about you, and thinks you should leave. Credit: John Sutton
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Corinth, VT: An American redstart, photographed near the confluence of the Waits and Connecticut rivers. Credit: John Sutton
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Savoy, MA: “My 15-year-old son in Level 1 Game of Logging training.” Credit: Charlie Najimy
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Starksboro, VT: Underwater scene from a spring by Lewis Creek. Credit: Anne Campbell
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Strafford, VT: This is a Ganoderma mushroom (also called a reishi), probably G. tusugae. Notice its varnish-like surface. Credit: Anonymous
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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
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Williamsville, VT: Stone steps on the Yellow Trail at The Manitou Project. Credit: Mary Stowe
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Eaton, NH: Hiding in plain sight. A gray treefrog is almost perfectly camouflaged on a red pine. Credit: Shane Gurney
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Strafford, VT: The reeds have eyes. An American bittern. Credit: Tig Tillinghast
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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
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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.”
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Stamford, CT: A northern flicker feeds a chick. Credit: Vanessa David
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Southern VT: At last, a guaranteed way to protect hardwood saplings from deer browse. Credit: Anonymous
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Woodford State Park, VT: Sunlight on the Adams Reservoir. Credit: Mary Stowe
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Bradford, VT: New friends take in the view from the Wright Mountain observation hut. Credit: Emily Rowe

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