Leaping lady’s slippers! In June, a favorite photo subject was early summer wildflowers. Baby moose and fisher kits followed their mothers, a young fawn rested in the tall grass, and heron chicks welcomed a parent’s return. Another favorite subject this month: evocative landscapes, ranging from a sublime valley in Cambridge, Vermont, to an eerie “bent forest” in Newfoundland. This summer’s prize for best dressed insect goes to: the rosy maple moth.
June 2019
Ashland, ME. A hummingbird in twilight silhouette, “feeding before bedtime.” | Photo: Lonnie S Jandreau
Cherryfield, ME. A painted trillium, discovered near Lower Sabago Lake Campground. | Photo: Arthur Tenan
Snydertown, PA. “This is the first time I've been fortunate enough to see momma fisher with two kits.” | Photo: Bonnie Honaberger
Center Conway, NH. 4,300' elev., Mt. Washington, NH These showy young spruce cones stood out from all the rest up in the krummholz. | Photo: Paul Getchell
Hermon, ME. A painted turtle on asphalt – demonstrating how easy it is to overlook these creatures as they make road crossings. | Photo: Karen Downs
Hartland, VT. Lady’s slippers at the Eshqua Bog. | Photo: Jill Herrick-Lee
Carmel, ME. Eastern tiger swallowtails “puddling.” They’re likely collecting salt or other nutrients. Here’s an article by Susan Shea, explaining puddling behavior. https://northernwoodlands.org/outside_story/article/butterflies-bar. | Photo: Ed Baum
Lycoming County, PA. “Fishing in Muncy Creek.” | Photo: Charlie Schwarz
South Williamstown, MA. Dead Man's Fingers (Xylaria polyporpha) in a field. | Photo: Patricia Liddle
Lincoln, VT. “I nearly tripped over this. Now, will watch from afar.” | Photo: Rob Reiber
Cambridge, VT. “Nature has a reason for everything. A perfect June day.” | Photo: Penelope Harris
Odell, NH. “Remember Cruiser the puppy from April?” Here’s the pup at four months, enjoying the Nash Stream Forest. | Photo: Todd Caron
Hermon, ME. “Highbush cranberries are blooming in June.” | Photo: Ed Baum
Thetford, VT. Parent tree swallows almost collide as one brings food to the young and the other removes a fecal sac. To learn more about the little white sacs, see this blog post. https://northernwoodlands.org/editors_blog/article/little-white-sac-discovery | Photo: Tig Tillinghast
Cherryfield, ME. “Frost on the laurel.” | Photo: Arthur Tenan
Marcellus, NY. “Killdeer Nest in parking lot, with the female off doing her distress act.” | Photo: Sue March
Dalton, NH. “Momma moose and her two calves in an old beaver pond. A good choice for a hot day!” | Photo: AM Dannis
Center Conway, NH. “June 5, 4,300' elev., Mt. Washington, NH.” | Photo: Paul Getchell
Hopkinton, NH. Writer Laurie Morrissey recently contributed this essay to our Outside Story series. https://northernwoodlands.org/outside_story/article/lovely-lupines. Here’s her photo of wild lupine growing in the Concord, New Hampshire pine/scrub oak barrens. She notes, “it is the only food of the federally endangered Karner blue butterfly caterpillar.” | Photo: Laurie D. Morrissey
Hermon, ME. A patch of pink moccasin lady’s slippers, as well as white ones (same species). | Photo: Ed Baum
Waterford, VT. “A view of New Hampshire’s Northern Presidentials on a quiet cloudy day from across Cherry Pond In the Pondicherry National Wildlife Refuge.” | Photo: Patricia Gould
Snydertown, PA. An eastern fence lizard. | Photo: Bonnie Honaberger
Georgia, VT. “Chipping Sparrow nest.” | Photo: Jill Herrick-Lee
Dalton, NH. “Rosy maple moth (Dryocampa rubicunda).” | Photo: AM Dannis
First of three photos. Wilmington, OH. “Mama’s home.” Blue herons often raise their young in clusters of nests called rookeries. You can learn more about heron family life here. [https://northernwoodlands.org/outside_story/article/great-blue-herons] | Photo: Barb Regan
Continued. Wilmington, OH. “Breakfast is served.” | Photo: Barb Regan
Continued. Wilmington, OH. “Breakfast is served #2.” | Photo: Barb Regan
Dalton, NH. “Newly sprouting eastern larch (Larix laricina) cone.” This tree is also called American larch, tamarack, and hackmatack, among other names. | Photo: AM Dannis
Watkins Glen State Park, NY. “A view from the gorge while hiking Watkins Glen.” | Photo: Bonnie Honaberger
Watkins Glen State Park, NY. “This is the first Jack in the Pulpit that I've seen in many, many years.” | Photo: Bonnie Honaberger
Dalton, NH. “Black bear working on the power lines -- removing vegetation and buffing up the poles. Seriously, they use the poles as marking posts!” | Photo: AM Dannis
East Nassau, NY. One-flowered cancer-root or one-flowered broomrape, a parasitic plant, “photographed in early June in the Albert Family Forest.” | Photo: Patricia Liddle
Brownsville, VT. “Two young woodcocks.” | Photo: Alex Barrett
Plymouth, NH. “Cardinal fledgling makes a soft landing in the garden.” | Photo: Eric D'Aleo
Cherryfield, ME. “Sunset, Lower Sabago Lake.” | Photo: Arthur Tenan
Cherryfield, ME. “Foggy morning sunrise.” | Photo: Arthur Tenan
Jay, VT: “Looking west at the US-Canada border swath from the northern terminus of the Long Trail. The Missisquoi River Valley is to the left of the line, the Sutton Mountains of Quebec to the right.” | Photo: Barbara Mackay
Plymouth, NH. “Lady's slipper bloom in afternoon light.” | Photo: Eric D'Aleo
Thetford, VT. Get off my lawn! This irate male American redstart spent a day fussing at anyone passed within twenty feet of his favorite tree. | Photo: Tig Tillinghast
La Manche, Newfoundland. “3 Steps to Nowhere - Front steps are all that remains of a building in the village of La Manche, Newfoundland. The village was destroyed in a winter storm in 1966.” | Photo: Eric D'Aleo
East Coast Trail, Newfoundland.” A bent forest of balsam fir.” | Photo: Eric D'Aleo
Hermon, ME. “Big snapping turtle, big rock.” | Photo: Ed Baum
Union, CT. An especially long-necked patch of pink moccasin lady’s slippers. | Photo: Nate Rosebrooks
South Williamsport, PA. “Mountain laurel, Pennsylvania's state flower, blooms in June wherever the soils are dry and acidic.” | Photo: Charlie Schwarz
Thetford, VT. A child holds an oak apple wasp gall, one of the many small wonders of the summer woods. | Photo: Tig Tillinghast