What in the Woods is That?

We found this pretty bolt in our firewood pile. Alright wood geeks, what species is it?

Home sweet home. What animal lives here?

A two-part question: What type of cones are these, and why are they in a pile?

This tree has a disease. What’s your diagnosis?

What is spilling out of this log? (Thanks to Bonnie Pease for the photo.)

A game camera captured this animal shape on a beaver dam in late January. What animal is it?

Christina Erickson came upon masses of these tiny black creatures in the woods in Charlotte, Vermont, just after Thanksgiving. What are they?

Cheryl Cullion came across this unusual mushroom in Intervale, New Hampshire. We’re wondering, what caused it to grow like this?

What is happening to the top of this stump? Clue: It is part of a long row of white spruce planted together decades ago and more recently thinned by removing every other tree. Thanks to Kyle…

This moss-covered mound, around 100 feet long and 4 feet wide, was spotted high on a mountain in a stand of red spruce and balsam fir. What do you think it might be?

Dana Hillesland sent us these photos she took in northwestern New Hampshire in October. We want to know: What in the Water is That?

What are we looking at here?

Spotted beside a pond. What’s on this sapling?

“Leaves of three, let them be” is the old saying to help keep you from touching poison ivy, but not all plants that have leaves or leaflets arranged in groups of threes have the potential…

A bit of fall color on the forest floor. What are we looking at here? (Thanks to Tammis Coffin for the photo.)

Ben Haubrich sent us these photos of some mossy logs he found beside a pond in southwestern New Hampshire. How long ago were they cut, do you figure?

What kind of tree is this, and what happened to the bark?

Ear’s this week’s question: What’s lurking just below the view of this game camera?

What happened to this maple tree?

We took these photos recently of a tree in full flower, in mid-July, in Vermont. Do you know what kind of tree it is?