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Nature Sightings images and videos show the many species of wildlife that make their homes in the SVT region.
SVT cares for some of this region’s most important forests, wetlands, and grasslands—natural areas that support wildlife habitat that is crucial to the species we feel lucky to see on walks, in our back yards, and in fleeting glimpses on roadsides.
SVT is grateful to the many members and friends who share their photographs and videos for everyone to enjoy. In addition to displaying the images on this page, we also post selected images to our Facebook and Instagram pages, and we send a monthly Nature Sightings e-newsletter to interested subscribers. Subscribe.
Interested in submitting a photo or video? Please send it as an email attachment to Dan Stimson, [email protected]. (Please read our Nature Sightings Disclaimer before sending any images.)
Best of 2023: We've collected 50 of our favorite images from 2023 into an online photo album for you to enjoy.
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Steve Forman photographed this Cooper's hawk at Breakneck Hill Conservation Land in Southborough.
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Steve Forman photographed a red-winged blackbird and a pair of mute swans at Hager Pond in Marlborough.
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Steve Forman photographed a pair of mute swans at Bruce's Pond in Hudson.
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Steve Forman photographed a downy woodpecker, a song sparrow, and a red-winged blackbird at Breakneck Hill Conservation Land in Southborough.
Jon Turner used his automatically triggered wildlife camera to record this video of a mating pair of barred owls, with clucking wood frogs in the background, in Harvard.
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Jon Turner photographed a barred owl at Horse Meadows Knoll in Harvard.
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Nancy Wright photographed 13 species of birds in her Westborough back yard during the 2024 Great Backyard Bird Count .
Bill Fadden recorded this video of a mute swan breaking ice as it swam in Carding Mill Pond in Sudbury.
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Sue Feldberg photographed this blue-winged teal at Hager Pond in Marlborough.
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Jon Turner photographed a dark-eyed junco, a white-throated sparrow, and a red-tailed hawk in Harvard.
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Sue Feldberg photographed these lesser scaup at Hager Pond in Marlborough.
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Larry Lawrence photographed these beaver-chewed trees at SVT's Lyons-Cutler Conservation Land in Southborough.
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Jon Turner photographed an eastern bluebird at Horse Meadows Knoll in Harvard.
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