Your May photos included spring wildflowers, a dramatic coyote and fawn game camera shot, and iridescent birds in flight. Some of you were out tree planting - on flood plains and city streets- and students participated in a Game of Logging event. Also in this month's collection, a hungry hawk, surprised chipmunk and contemplative bear.
May 2015
Central VT. A mustard white butterfly on a dandelion. Credit: Anonymous
Southern VT: This picture and the next one, taken at the beginning and the end of the month, suggest that the old saying, “in like a lion, out like a lamb,” might be better applied to May. Credit: Anonymous
Continued from previous caption: Same landscape, end of May. Credit: Anonymous
Newburgh, NY: A broadwing hawk, moments after taking down a robin. Credit: Helene Grogan
Continued from previous caption: The hawk lifts off again, taking the robin with it. Credit: Helene Grogan
Moretown, VT: Spring wetlands. Credit: Elisabeth Mazzilli
Hanover, NH: A red fox on rodent patrol at the Dartmouth College golf course. Credit: Tig Tillinghast
Rutland, VT: Students from the Stafford Forestry and Natural Resources Program help to plant street trees in Rutland with the Rutland Blooms Initiative. Credit: Mark Raishart
Jamaica, VT: “dog seeks chipmunk for play.” Credit: Mary Stowe
Claremont, NH: Just the kind of company the dog in the last photo was seeking. Credit: Katharine Sprague
Pittsford, VT: “Students from the Stafford Forestry and Natural Resources Program helped to restore a riparian buffer at a reclaimed dam site in Pittsford, Vermont.” Credit: Dan Lovell
West Hartford, VT: “Trout lilies are everywhere this spring.” Credit: Yvonne Stone
West Haven, VT: Juvenile eastern newt (also called a red eft). Credit: Elisabeth Mazzilli
Northern Vermont: Christian Marks, an ecologist with the Nature Conservancy, works with volunteers to plant disease-resistant American elms on a river floodplain. This project is part of the Nature Conservancy’s Elm Restoration Project. Credit: Erika Nortemann
Calais, VT: A Mother’s Day rainbow. Credit: Juanita Nunn
Central VT: A male tree swallow. Credit: Tig Tillinghast
Central VT: A ruby throated hummingbird. Credit: Tig Tillinghast
Derby, VT: Striped maple at Spruce Ledge on the Long Trail. Credit: Barb Mackay
Cumberland, ME: Water bead on a daylily. Credit: Devon Galvan
Derby, VT: A windy day in the woods. Credit: Barb Mackay
Central VT: Fringed polygala. Credit: Anonymous
West Hartford, VT: “The new tenants have arrived!” Credit: Yvonne Stone
Franconia, NH: “We spotted about a half dozen painted turtles during a weekend paddle on a local pond in Sugar Hill. This is the only one who didn't spook and slide back into the water.” Credit: Meghan McCarthy McPhaul
Southern VT: Unidentified larvae on a piece of freshly cut firewood. This is why moving firewood long distances is a bad idea. Credit: Anonymous
Central VT: “Pollinating insect on a wild strawberry blossom.” Credit: Anonymous
Pembroke, NH: Coyote with fawn. Credit: Aaron Fitzgerald
Southern VT: Turkey feathers. “May is turkey season in Vermont.” Credit: Anonymous
Buckland, MA: “Black bear, sitting down to listen while my dog barks at it.” Credit: Helene Grogan
Pittsford, VT: “Ten (Stafford) Forestry and Natural Resources students competed in a felling event at an annual Game of Logging competition at Gagnon Lumber in Pittsford, Vermont. Credit: Mark Raishart
Moretown, VT: Painted trillium. Credit: Elisabeth Mazzilli
Central VT: Wolf spider, snacking on another spider? Credit: Tig Tillinghast
Williamsville, VT: Late May is typically when ladyslippers bloom. These pink moccasins appeared in the “Mayan Fire Circle, Manitou Project” in Williamsville. Credit: Mary Stowe
Somerset, VT: The Somerset Reservoir, a great destination for paddlers, covers approximately 1,600 acres. Credit: Mary Stowe
Thetford, VT: A tank raised wood frog tadpole shows off its quickly developing froggy facial features. Credit: Tig Tillinghast
Lebanon, NH: The photographer found this pileated woodpecker pounding on a stump. Credit: Yvonne Stone