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April 2015

This month's photos showed, at long last, the woods waking up. Amphibians mated in vernal pools, bees ventured from their hives and bright green ramps popped up among the brown, snow-flattened leaves. Meanwhile, a chickadee gathered nesting material, a boy explored a flooded stream, and a daughter enlisted her forester-dad to release and prune some apple trees. Spring has sprung.

We’re now on the hunt for May 2015 photos. We encourage you to share images about anything that relates to the Northeast’s forests, and that you take this month. Here are examples – but by no means an exclusive list – of photo topics that fit this category: nature, weather, education activities (any age), forest management/logging, recreation, wood manufacture, art, workshops, events. As long as it relates in some way to the Northeast’s forests, we’ll consider it.

April 2015 Photo: Ed
Indiana, PA. As the month began, this spotted salamander was on the move, headed for a vernal pool. Typically, the males arrive first, and mass together in the pool while they wait for their lady loves. Credit: Ed | Photo: Ed
April 2015 Photo: Marnie Reed Crowell
Sunset, ME: “As April began and sap flowed, the red squirrels on Deer Isle in Maine began their tapping – licketty-licketty.” Credit: Marnie Reed Crowell | Photo: Marnie Reed Crowell
April 2015 Photo: Karen Dean
Hartford, VT: On April 3, “a full moon hung over Scattered Maples Sugar house at Jericho Hills Farm.” Credit: Karen Dean | Photo: Karen Dean
April 2015 Photo: Kevin MacKenzie
Upper Jay, NY. Meanwhile, on the Adirondacks’ Gothic Mountain, there was still thick snowpack at 4,000 feet in elevation. This photo was taken during a climb of Gothic's North face. More photos at www.mackenziefamily.com/46/46r.html. Credit: Kevin MacKenzie | Photo: Kevin MacKenzie
April 2015 Photo: Amy Sargent
Chagrin Falls, OH: A beaver meadow, just thawing out. Frog song and red winged blackbirds coming soon? Credit: Amy Sargent | Photo: Amy Sargent
April 2015 Photo: David Matthews
Fairlee, VT: Deer and turkeys dine together on a chicory food plot. Credit: David Matthews | Photo: David Matthews
April 2015 Photo: Antoni Zaborek
Plattsburgh, NY: A Bohemian waxwing, also enjoying an early spring snack. Credit: Antoni Zaborek | Photo: Antoni Zaborek
April 2015 Photo: Tig Tillinghast
Thetford, VT: One of last fall’s losers. The remains of a fungi-infested moth, just thawing out. Credit: Tig Tillinghast | Photo: Tig Tillinghast
April 2015 Photo: Anonymous
Central VT: Spring ramps. Credit: Anonymous | Photo: Anonymous
April 2015 Photo: Vermont Coverts
Craftsbury, VT: The nonprofit Vermont Coverts: Woodlands for Wildlife (www.vtcoverts.org), held an alumni gathering, including a guided walk through a managed forest. Credit: Vermont Coverts | Photo: Vermont Coverts
April 2015 Photo: Vermont Coverts
Craftsbury, VT: Another image from this same gathering. State wildlife biologist (and Northern Woodlands board member) Kim Royar gives a presentation on furbearers. Credit: Vermont Coverts | Photo: Vermont Coverts
April 2015 Photo: Judy Glanforte.
Day, NY: Otter tracks, “a good half mile between two streams.” Credit: Judy Glanforte | Photo: Judy Glanforte.
April 2015 Photo: Gib Geiger
Waitsfield, VT: “After six months of being stuck in their hive, my bees came out and they are collecting pollen substitute that I put out for them. Once the pussywillows, red maples, and poplar bloom, they won't need me anymore. I'm thrilled that all of my hives survived healthy.” Credit: Gib Geiger | Photo: Gib Geiger
April 2015 Photo: Anonymous
Strafford, VT: First garter snake of the spring. Credit: Anonymous | Photo: Anonymous
April 2015 Photo: Helene Grogan
Buckland, MA: “Finally, free of ice and snow!” Credit: Helene Grogan | Photo: Helene Grogan
April 2015 Photo: Anonymous
Central VT: Scarlet cup fungus. Credit: Anonymous | Photo: Anonymous
April 2015 Photo: David Gomeau
Augusta, ME: An enterprising chickadee harvests hair from a deer tail for its nesting material. Credit: David Gomeau | Photo: David Gomeau
April 2015 Photo: Ed Vivier
Middlefield, MA: “Red, black, gray squirrels peacefully eating together.” Credit: Ed Vivier | Photo: Ed Vivier
April 2015 Photo: Mary Stowe
Southern VT: Jelly Falls, off of Route 30. Credit: Mary Stowe | Photo: Mary Stowe
April 2015 Photo: Helene Grogan
Buckland, MA: “Muskrat in the shallows of a woodland pond.” Credit: Helene Grogan | Photo: Helene Grogan
April 2015 Photo: Lonnie Jandreau
Ashland, ME: “Fresh chaga from Scopan Lake Area.” Credit: Lonnie Jandreau | Photo: Lonnie Jandreau
April 2015 Photo: Richard Carbonetti
Newport, VT: A deer at the end of a hard winter. Credit: Richard Carbonetti | Photo: Richard Carbonetti
April 2015 Photo: Mary Jane Grace
Addison, VT: A painted turtle catches some rays at Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area. Credit: Mary Jane Grace | Photo: Mary Jane Grace
April 2015 Photo: Tig Tillinghast
Thetford, VT: The Tillinghast family has been raising wood frog tadpoles this spring. First of several images. Frogs in amplexus. Credit: Tig Tillinghast | Photo: Tig Tillinghast
April 2015 Photo: Tig Tillinghast
Continued: Sometimes, love hurts. Look in the beak of this broadwing hawk and you’ll see the end of one frog’s romantic aspirations. | Photo: Tig Tillinghast
April 2015 Photo: Tig Tillinghast
Continued: Just laid wood frog eggs. | Photo: Tig Tillinghast
April 2015 Photo: Tig Tillinghast
Continued: Same eggs, two days later. Tadpoles still in the jelly, but starting to take shape. | Photo: Tig Tillinghast
April 2015 Photo: Tig Tillinghast
Continued: Hatched! A young wood frog tadpole. | Photo: Tig Tillinghast
West Hartford, VT: “This young man spent the day pounding on our shed roof and on a metal ladder making quite a racket!” Credit: Yvonne Stone | Photo: Yvonne Stone
April 2015 Photo: Garry Plunkett
Tiverton, RI: Forester Garry Plunkett took this picture while monitoring a preserved nature area. The photo shows “an ingenious stone wall complex that was erected across a brook to permit livestock watering from one side without letting the animals escape to the land opposite the brook…The walls loop across the stream, and were built with openings that permit the stream to run through.” Credit: Garry Plunkett | Photo: Garry Plunkett
April 2015 Photo: Helene Grogan
Buckland, MA. Another broadwing hawk. Broadwings are known for springtime hunting along wood roads, pond edges and field edges. Credit: Helene Grogan | Photo: Helene Grogan
April 2015 Photo: Jason Berard
Hanover, NH: A view across moss and rocks at Mink Brook Nature Preserve. A conservation easement held by the Upper Valley Land Trust protects this property. Credit: Jason Berard | Photo: Jason Berard
April 2015 Photo: Meghan McCarthy McPhaul
Franconia, NH: “A Compton tortoiseshell butterfly awake from hibernation - and a welcome sign of spring!” Credit: Meghan McCarthy McPhaul | Photo: Meghan McCarthy McPhaul
Bakersfield, VT: “My father, Paul Harwood, came to our homestead to teach us about releasing and pruning apple trees. These almost-feral trees hadn't seen much attention in the past decade or so, and it seemed like we could almost hear them breathe a sigh of relief as we cleaned them up.” Credit: Hannah Doyle | Photo: Hannah Doyle
April 2015 Photo: David Gomeau
Augusta, ME: “Marten surprise.” Credit: David Gomeau | Photo: David Gomeau
April 2015 Photo: Hugh Mellert
Hanover, NH: “Slade Brook Waterfall, a 50-foot cascade that can be quite spectacular during spring meltdown. Only a 10 minute hike from Old Lyme Road.” Credit: Hugh Mellert | Photo: Hugh Mellert
April 2015 Photo: David Gomeau
Augusta, ME: A female ruby-throated hummingbird. When you see hummers in early spring, they’re often trailing behind yellow bellied sapsuckers. They follow along and harvest sap from the larger bird’s excavations. Credit: David Gomeau | Photo: David Gomeau
April 2015 Photo: Mary Stowe
Southern VT: Another curious stone wall photo. Is that a smiling whale? Credit: Mary Stowe | Photo: Mary Stowe
April 2015 Photo: Tanya Sousa
Irasburg, VT: A mated hooded merganser pair. “The area is going through its typical spring flooding in April, and the ducks, geese, osprey, and bald eagles are thrilled with the conditions. I've even seen a few great blue herons already.” Credit Tanya Sousa | Photo: Tanya Sousa
April 2015 Photo: Anonymous
Southern VT: “Look closely at the submerged snapping turtle and you'll see a brave sunfish casually swimming beside her.” Credit: Anonymous | Photo: Anonymous
April 2015 Photo: Tig Tillinghast
Central VT: At the end of April, this wood duck pair had staked out this pool. Credit: Tig Tillinghast | Photo: Tig Tillinghast
April 2015 Photo: Tig Tillinghast
Central VT: The male wood duck noshes on an acorn. Credit: Tig Tillinghast | Photo: Tig Tillinghast
April 2015 Photo: Vermont Wood Studios
VT: Sure the food’s good, but the ambience needs improvement. Credit: Vermont Wood Studios | Photo: Vermont Wood Studios
April 2015 Photo: Antoni Zaborek
Adirondacks, NY: Blooming crocuses. A welcome sign of spring. Credit: Antoni Zaborek | Photo: Antoni Zaborek
April 2015 Photo: Yvonne Stone
Hartford, VT: Red fox, green field. Credit: Yvonne Stone | Photo: Yvonne Stone

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