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December 9th, 2021 Reader Photo Gallery

November 2021

Your November photos depicted the subdued colors and quiet scenes of the Northeast’s “stick season,” as well as occasional bright highlights such as lemon drop fungi and winterberry. Two of you were lucky enough to find otters; Dave Thompson spied one (or was it spying on him?) swimming by a fallen tree, and Paula Schlax captured a delightful image of two of the animals hanging out with their heron companion. Geoffrey Bluh explored an old tree plantation, Leif Tillotson captured some beautiful sunset scenes, and on a frosty morning, a forester crossed a wetland, heading off for a day’s work in the woods.

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November 2021 Photo: Paula J. Schlax
Portland, ME. “Otters and heron in early light.” | Photo: Paula J. Schlax
November 2021 Photo: AM Dannis
Dalton, NH. “Fireworks on the forest floor (haircap moss).” | Photo: AM Dannis
November 2021 Photo: Eric D’Aleo
Plymouth, NH. “Five cherry wood spoons were finished just before the holiday. These are not for the woodstove.” | Photo: Eric D’Aleo
November 2021 Photo: Geoffrey Bluh
Shelburne, MA. “Checking out planted cedar trees from an old tree plantation long abandoned and overgrown. These are on the Mahican-Mohawk trail. Also found in this forest are planted spruce, tamarack , red and white pines.” | Photo: Geoffrey Bluh
November 2021 Photo: Jack Nelson
Plainfield, MA. “She stoops to eat a winterberry fruit. Cedar wax wings' visit.” | Photo: Jack Nelson
November 2021 Photo: Carol Leonard
Ellsworth, ME. “Cheeky gray squirrel looking very put out.” | Photo: Carol Leonard
November 2021 Photo: Anonymous
Thetford, VT. “An end of November sight: sunlight through snowy woods.” | Photo: Anonymous
November 2021 Photo: Debra Clough
Hebron, NH. “Beech tones.” | Photo: Debra Clough
November 2021 Photo: Frank Kaczmarek
Franconia, NH. Lemon drop fungi. | Photo: Frank Kaczmarek
November 2021 Photo: Charlie Schwarz
Craig Fork of Lick Run, Clinton County, PA. “Lick Run is an exceptional value stream and classified as a wilderness trout stream.” | Photo: Charlie Schwarz
November 2021 Photo: AM Dannis
Dalton, NH. “Milkweed (Asclepias) seeds still waiting to fly in mid-November.” | Photo: AM Dannis
November 2021 Photo: Leif Tillotson
First of two photos. Swanton, VT. “Autumn sunset.” | Photo: Leif Tillotson
November 2021 Photo: Leif Tillotson
Second of two photos. Swanton, VT. “Autumn sunset.” | Photo: Leif Tillotson
November 2021 Photo: Harold F. Mallette
Solon, ME. “Paper wasp nest in driveway. Last year's was in a yellow maple next to the house. Will they return in 2022?” | Photo: Harold F. Mallette
November 2021 Photo: Tony Marple
Evans Notch, ME. “View from Caribou Mountain.” | Photo: Tony Marple
November 2021 Photo: Bonna Wieler
Warrensburg, NY. Fungal patterns on pine. | Photo: Bonna Wieler
November 2021 Photo: Karinne Heise
Warner, NH. “Adult eastern newt swimming in the shallows.” | Photo: Karinne Heise
November 2021 Photo: Sheri Larsen
Bolton, VT. “Falling tree caught up in another. Fall is the time when my husband and I get out to do trail work on existing backcountry ski trails. We often encounter downed trees that need to be sawed and removed from the trail. Fortunately, this tree got caught up.” | Photo: Sheri Larsen
November 2021 Photo: Hale Morrell
Stafford, NH. “A consulting forester sets forth across a wetland for a day of inventory work in the woods.” | Photo: Hale Morrell
November 2021 Photo: Tod Dimmick
Grantham, NH. “Eagle over Eastman Pond.” | Photo: Tod Dimmick
November 2021 Photo: Tracy Sherbrook
Lyndonville, VT. “Polypore parade.” | Photo: Tracy Sherbrook
November 2021 Photo: Deborah DeSalvo
Oldwick, NJ. “Red clover covered in frost.” | Photo: Deborah DeSalvo
November 2021 Photo: Debra Clough
Hebron, NH. “Lovely decor in the woods.” | Photo: Debra Clough
November 2021 Photo: Charlie Schwarz
Loyalsockville, PA. “Peaceful scene along Loyalsock Creek, a major tributary of the Susquehanna River.” | Photo: Charlie Schwarz
November 2021 Photo: AM Dannis
Dalton, NH. “"If I stand here long enough will my antlers grow?" A young bull moose wonders as he peers out from snow-dusted brush.” | Photo: AM Dannis
November 2021 Photo: Bonna Wieler
Warrensburg, NY. “Ladder up?!” | Photo: Bonna Wieler
November 2021 Photo: Tony Marple
Rumford, ME. “Rumford Whitecap with wild blueberries.” | Photo: Tony Marple
November 2021 Photo: Karinne Heise
Warner, NH. “Hooded mergansers at sunset.” | Photo: Karinne Heise
November 2021 Photo: Charlie Schwarz
South Williamsport, PA. “An eastern coyote on Bald Eagle Mountain captured by a home-brewed camera trap built around a Sony S600 camera.” | Photo: Charlie Schwarz
November 2021 Photo: Andrew Sheere
Jamaica, VT. “A cut-to-length thinning operation in a small red pine plantation.” | Photo: Andrew Sheere
November 2021 Photo: Ross Lanius
Sterling Forest State Park, NY. “Rattlesnake plantain. A new trail in Sterling Forest State Park had to be rerouted to avoid a cluster of rattlesnake plantains when discovered by an environmental officer checking the trail location.” | Photo: Ross Lanius
November 2021 Photo: AM Dannis
Dalton, NH. “Large chaga mushroom (Inonotus obliquus) on hop hornbeam. Men’s XL work glove for scale.” | Photo: AM Dannis
November 2021 Photo: Eric D’Aleo
Holderness, NH. “Eastern bluebird feeding on staghorn sumac berries just before Thanksgiving.” | Photo: Eric D’Aleo
November 2021 Photo: Ross Lanius
North Haven, CT. “Nature's thermometer. Tightly curled leaves indicate freezing temperatures and slippery surfaces.” | Photo: Ross Lanius
November 2021 Photo: Frank Kaczmarek
Lincoln, NH. “Bitter oyster mushrooms. This is one of several bioluminescent fungal species found in the Northeast.” | Photo: Frank Kaczmarek
November 2021 Photo: Charlie Schwarz
South Williamsport, PA. “Lest anyone wonder how chronic wasting disease is spread among deer, grooming is a common activity.” | Photo: Charlie Schwarz
November 2021 Photo: Tracy Sherbrook
Lyndonville, VT. “Gastropod gem.” | Photo: Tracy Sherbrook
November 2021 Photo: Bonna Wieler
Athol, NY. Fungi with floral aspirations? | Photo: Bonna Wieler
November 2021 Photo: Karinne Heise
Warner, NH. “A beaver pond's sunset reflections.” | Photo: Karinne Heise
November 2021 Photo: Ross Lanius
Sterling Forest State Park, NY. “Hemlock. Woolly adelgid on the hemlock needles, no, sleet. Checked the needles and found no evidence of the HWA. Nature is controlling the insect.” | Photo: Ross Lanius
November 2021 Photo: Dave Thompson
First of two. Portland, ME. “Otter.” | Photo: Dave Thompson
November 2021 Photo: Dave Thompson
Second of two. The same otter, peering out through the stems of fallen tree. | Photo: Dave Thompson
November 2021 Photo: Eric D’Aleo
Holderness, NH. “Trapped!! Red oak leaf beneath the first ice on the pond.” | Photo: Eric D’Aleo
November 2021 Photo: Geoffrey Bluh
Shelburne, MA. “Tall tamarack trees reach to the sky in the woods where there was a former plantation of different conifer species. They can be found on the Mahican -Mohawk trail in Wilcox Hollow.” | Photo: Geoffrey Bluh
November 2021 Photo: Charlie Schwarz
South Williamsport, PA. “The gray squirrel is a loveable pest.” | Photo: Charlie Schwarz
November 2021 Photo: Frank Kaczmarek
Sugar Hill, NH. “Season’s end at Coffin Pond.” | Photo: Frank Kaczmarek
November 2021 Photo: AM Dannis
Dalton, NH. “Mock oyster mushrooms (Phyllotopsis nidulans) on maple blowdown.” | Photo: AM Dannis
November 2021 Photo: Geoffrey Bluh
Shelburne, MA. “Beech and oaks overlook the Deerfield River through Wilcox Hollow, here the Mahican -Mohawk trail hugs a steep ravine, prone to landslides.” | Photo: Geoffrey Bluh
November 2021 Photo: Ross Lanius
North Haven, CT. “Oriental bittersweet is a fast growing nasty invasive vine that will wrap itself around a tree and create twisted scar as seen in this picture of a scarred sapling.” | Photo: Ross Lanius
November 2021 Photo: Eric D’Aleo
Rumney, NH. “The bog in the fog.” | Photo: Eric D’Aleo

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