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April 28th, 2017 Reader Photo Gallery

April 2017

Your photos this month featured turkey courtship and spring wetlands. Red fox kits basked in the sun in East Nassau, New York, and in Waitsfield, Vermont, a chipmunk ventured out of its lair...to fall prey to a hungry hawk. Check out the image of emerald ash borer damage from Pennsylvania for a sobering look at what these insects can do.

We’re now on the hunt for May 2017 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 2017 Photo: Laurie Dirkx
Ontario, NY: “Mated pair, female in flight.” Credit: Laurie Dirkx | Photo: Laurie Dirkx
April 2017 Photo: Charlie Schwarz
South Williamsport, PA. “White ash logs at the Baillie log yard near Williamsport.” Credit: Charlie Schwarz | Photo: Charlie Schwarz
April 2017 Photo: Yvonne L Stone
West Hartford, VT. “Some spring color.” Pumonaria saccharata, or Bethlehem lungwort, is a native of Europe, but is known to grow wild in Connecticut, New York, and Vermont. Credit: Yvonne L Stone | Photo: Yvonne L Stone
April 2017 Photo: Gib Geiger
Waitsfield, VT. An accipiter (almost certainly a Cooper’s hawk) and a spring chipmunk. Credit: Gib Geiger | Photo: Gib Geiger
April 2017 Photo: Pauline Fadden
Montgomery, VT. “Mountain glow.” Credit: Pauline Fadden | Photo: Pauline Fadden
April 2017 Photo: Tig Tillinghast
Thetford, VT. “Peent.” This woodcock began performing its courtship displays in the first week of April. Credit: Tig Tillinghast | Photo: Tig Tillinghast
April 2017 Photo: Lisa Johnson
Worcester, MA. Beautiful decay. A pine stump exhibits a vivid array of fungal stains. Credit: Lisa Johnson | Photo: Lisa Johnson
April 2017 Photo: Gina Kreutter
Webster, NY. A pair of wood ducks. Credit: Gina Kreutter | Photo: Gina Kreutter
April 2017 Photo: Sally Naser
Shirley, MA. “Focused bobcat perched on a stonewall next to a beaver pond at The Trustees of Reservations' Farandnear property.” Credit: Sally Naser | Photo: Sally Naser
April 2017 Photo: Linda Reed
Constantia, NY: A vernal pool. Credit: Linda Reed | Photo: Linda Reed
April 2017 Photo: Meghan McCarthy McPhaul
Acadia National Park, ME. “A seaweed-entwined oak leaf.” Credit: Meghan McCarthy McPhaul | Photo: Meghan McCarthy McPhaul
April 2017 Photo: Jane Chandler
Bryant Pond, ME. “Heron heralds spring.” Credit: Jane Chandler | Photo: Jane Chandler
April 2017 Photo: Patricia Liddle
Canaan, NY. “Ferns beginning to grow.” Credit: Patricia Liddle | Photo: Patricia Liddle
April 2017 Photo: Lonnie S. Jandreau
Ashland, ME. “As neat as this young moose looks, it was covered with blood-sucking ticks and was in misery.” Credit: Lonnie S. Jandreau | Photo: Lonnie S. Jandreau
April 2017 Photo: Teddy Hopkins
Readsboro, VT. “Double rainbow above our general store.” Credit: Teddy Hopkins | Photo: Teddy Hopkins
April 2017 Photo: Don Wharton
Harrisburg Lake, Adirondacks. “Unhatched wood duck eggs.” Credit: Don Wharton | Photo: Don Wharton
April 2017 Photo: Lonnie S. Jandreau
Ashland, ME. Late April is prime turkey courtship season. Here, two toms fight for access to the hens. Credit: Lonnie S. Jandreau | Photo: Lonnie S. Jandreau
April 2017 Photo: Linda Scharf
Plymouth, MA. The turtles are back. Basking northern red-bellied cooters at Myles Standish State Forest. Credit: Linda Scharf | Photo: Linda Scharf
April 2017 Photo: Fred McCagg
Nassau, NY. “Overwatch on Nassau Lake.” Credit: Fred McCagg | Photo: Fred McCagg
April 2017 Photo: Jack Bell
Rockingham, VT. “In the dry ground of the oak-pine hills near the Connecticut River, a cut-to-length harvester releases crop trees and liberates pine saplings that have been hiding under a mixed-oak canopy.” Credit: Jack Bell | Photo: Jack Bell
April 2017 Photo: Diana Todd
Halifax, VT. “On April 13, the day after the ice went out on our pond, we had a visit by a great blue heron.” Credit: Diana Todd | Photo: Diana Todd
April 2017 Photo: Fred McCagg
East Nassau, NY. Red fox kits enjoy the sun on April 18. Credit: Fred McCagg | Photo: Fred McCagg
April 2017 Photo: Fred McCagg
East Nassau, NY. “The curious one!” Credit: Fred McCagg | Photo: Fred McCagg
April 2017 Photo: Lisa J. Johnson
Cherry Valley, MA. “Rushing waters after rain.” Credit: Lisa J. Johnson | Photo: Lisa J. Johnson
April 2017 Photo: Bonnie Honaberger
Snydertown, PA. “While taking my walk to check my game cameras I heard a chickadee, watched very carefully, and was able to [identify] the tree it was going in and out of.” Credit: Bonnie Honaberger | Photo: Bonnie Honaberger
April 2017 Photo: Mena Schmid
Groton, MA. “Snapping turtle along the Nashua River Rail Trail.” Credit: Mena Schmid | Photo: Mena Schmid
April 2017 Photo: Tig Tillinghast
Thetford, VT. In late April, a bluebird perches on a birdhouse that was decorated by the photographer’s children. Credit: Tig Tillinghast | Photo: Tig Tillinghast
April 2017 Photo: Lisa Johnson
Worcester, MA. An impressionistic image of spring. Credit: Lisa Johnson | Photo: Lisa Johnson
April 2017 Photo: Charlie Schwarz
South Williamsport, PA. “Emerald ash borer galleries on a dead white ash. It has been estimated that there may be as many as 10,000 larvae beneath the bark of a large ash tree - is it any wonder the trees die?” Credit: Charlie Schwarz | Photo: Charlie Schwarz
April 2017 Photo: David Ellis
Washington, MA. “Turkey track in spring snow.” Credit: David Ellis | Photo: David Ellis
April 2017 Photo: Diana Todd
Halifax, VT. And here’s another bird track. “That's a three-foot stride! (There were actually two parallel sets of tracks.) I'm betting Great Blue Heron. There's a rookery two miles away.” Credit: Diana Todd | Photo: Diana Todd
April 2017 Photo: Linda Reed
Constantia, NY. Rounding out the bird track gallery, here’s a more artistic depiction of grouse tracks beside an oak leaf. Credit: Linda Reed | Photo: Linda Reed
April 2017 Photo: Karen Dean
White River Junction, VT. “Calm before the storm.” An image of the sky on April 1. Credit: Karen Dean | Photo: Karen Dean
April 2017 Photo: Charlie Schwarz
South Williamsport, PA. “A pair of hooded mergansers on a woodland stream. Photo from a 'homebrewed' camera trap using a Fuji J10 digital camera.” Credit: Charlie Schwarz | Photo: Charlie Schwarz
April 2017 Photo: Ed Baum
Hermon, ME. A male pileated woodpecker enjoys a snack. You can tell his gender by the red stripe on his cheek. Credit: Ed Baum | Photo: Ed Baum
April 2017 Photo: Ed Baum
Hermon, ME. Here’s a female, probably his mate. Note the lack of a red cheek stripe. Credit: Ed Baum | Photo: Ed Baum
April 2017 Photo: Tig Tillinghast
Lyme, NH. A kestrel surveys a pasture. Credit: Tig Tillinghast | Photo: Tig Tillinghast
April 2017 Photo: Beth Sekinger
Strafford, VT. This time of year, amphibians are laying eggs en masse in vernal pools and other wetlands. Credit: Beth Sekinger | Photo: Beth Sekinger
April 2017 Photo: Mena Schmid
Medford, MA. “Muskrat on the shore of the Lower Mystic Lake.” Credit: Mena Schmid | Photo: Mena Schmid
April 2017 Photo: Patricia Liddle
Canaan, NY. “Tussock grass.” Credit: Patricia Liddle | Photo: Patricia Liddle
April 2017 Photo: Yvonne L. Stone
Wilder, VT. “One of a large group of turkey vultures.” Credit: Yvonne L. Stone | Photo: Yvonne L. Stone
April 2017 Photo: Kevin Macmillan
North Conway, NH. Artist Brook bend, “where Champney painted.” Benjamin Champney, a nineteenth century artist, often depicted White Mountain scenes. Credit: Kevin Macmillan | Photo: Kevin Macmillan
April 2017 Photo: Gib Geiger
Waitsfield, VT. More turkey courtship action. “A flirting fan.” Credit: Gib Geiger | Photo: Gib Geiger
April 2017 Photo: John Gutowski
Twin Mountain, NH. And here’s a side view of the same type of display. This tom was showing off for two females. Credit: John Gutowski | Photo: John Gutowski
April 2017 Photo: Charlie Schwarz
Unityville, PA. “A legacy white oak in the middle of a field.” Credit: Charlie Schwarz | Photo: Charlie Schwarz

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