Mainly nocturnal and amazingly well camouflaged, eastern screech-owls can be very difficult to spot. Weighing a mere 4 to 8 ounces, these short, stocky owls often roost in tree cavities.…

On a perfect January day, climbers Majka Burhardt and husband Peter Doucette cross a frozen Lake Willoughby in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom in search of vertical ice. Lake Willoughby…

Every autumn, North Branch Nature Center in Montpelier, Vermont hosts a banding station for migrating northern saw-whet owls, a common but seldom-seen woodland species. Tig Tillinghast…

“There’s no finer place to be on a hot day than in water, but I quickly tire of swimming, so recently, I began bringing an underwater camera to the lakes and rivers near my…

“I found this ovenbird in Allegany State Park, New York. It was springtime, and he was singing lustily at the edge of the woods. His desire to claim his territory outweighed any fear he…

Frozen Time: “A drop of water hanging from this twig was twisted by the winds blowing through the forest in Manchester Center, Vermont, as the temperature rapidly dropped, forming an…

“I first put my boots on the ground in the Maine Woods in 1965,” explained Roger Merchant. “Like this wood turtle, the going was slow and deliberate.” He photographed…

“Last February, in late afternoon, a bobcat found the suet feeder in my backyard," explains photographer Elinor Osborn, who resides in Craftsbury Common, Vermont. "It dined on…

“I captured this image of a heron at sunrise from my kayak in northern New Hampshire,” said photographer Chris Mazzarella. “I used my 70-200mm f2.8 lens to create an…

So much for precise bluebird nest box dimensions. Tom Wetmore and Heidi Marcotte of Hartland, Vermont, found a brilliant use for a maple syrup jug that accidentally came too close to their…