Dawn Dentzer recorded a video of a spotted salamander rising to the surface for air at a vernal pool in Bolton. Dawn also photographed a mourning cloak butterfly and the catkins and bursting bud of a hazelnut there, too. The mourning cloak butterfly, which shelters through our winter season, is often one of the first butterflies we see as spring approaches.
Signs of Spring in Bolton
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Ron McAdow used his automatically triggered wildlife camera to record these videos of wood ducks, a river otter, a beaver, and a coyote at Well Meadow in Concord.
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Steve Forman photographed an American crow, a blue jay, red-winged blackbirds, killdeer, yellow-rumped warblers, great blue herons, mallards, a tree swallow, a solitary sandpiper, mute swans, an eastern kingbird, gray...
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Steve Forman photographed a ruby-throated hummingbird, brown-headed cowbirds, a cedar waxwing, killdeer, a red-tailed hawk, a red-winged blackbird, a northern mockingbird, and a Baltimore oriole at Breakneck Hill Conservation Land...