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Our Nature Sightings images depict the many species of wildlife that make their homes in the SVT region.

SVT protects and cares for some of this region’s most important forests, wetlands, and grasslands—natural areas that provide homes to the wildlife we 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 with our Nature Sightings page for everyone to enjoy. 

We also post selected images to our Facebook and Instagram pages, and we send a monthly Nature Sightings e-newsletter to interested subscribers.

Each year, we collect some of our favorite images into an online photo album:

Best of 2024     Best of 2023     Best of 2022     Best of 2021     Best of 2020
 

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.
 

 

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A red-tailed hawk in Sudbury, photographed by Curtis Heisey.
Curtis Heisey photographed these red-tailed hawks in Sudbury.
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A great blue heron at Willman Wetlands in Southborough, photographed by Debbie Costine.
Debbie Costine photographed this great blue heron at Willman Wetlands in Southborough.
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A bald eagle at Bare Hill Pond in Harvard, photographed by Robin Right.
Robin Right photographed this bald eagle at Bare Hill Pond in Harvard.
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A spotted sandpiper at Hager Pond in Marlborough, photographed by Steve Forman.
Steve Forman photographed a spotted sandpiper, great blue herons, a widow skimmer, Canada geese, green herons, an osprey, a solitary sandpiper, a lesser yellowlegs, a belted kingfisher, and a ring-billed...
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An eastern kingbird at Breakneck Hill Conservation Land in Southborough, photographed by Steve Forman.
Steve Forman photographed an eastern kingbird, a gray catbird, a cotton-tailed rabbit, ruby-throated hummingbirds, an eastern tiger swallowtail, a monarch butterfly, an American goldfinch, a great blue heron, a red-tailed...
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A wood duck (left) and mallards on Bartlett Pond in Northborough, photographed by Steve Forman.
Steve Forman photographed a wood duck and mallards at Bartlett Pond in Northborough.
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A Harris' Three-spot moth at SVT's Wolbach Farm in Sudbury, photographed by Norm Levey.
SVT recently hosted a National Moth Week event at Wolbach Farm in Sudbury. Norm Levey helped attract and identify moths that came to a lit up sheet. Some favorites of...
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A green heron in Framingham, photographed with an automatically triggered wildlife camera by Margaret McKane.
Margaret McKane used her automatically triggered wildlife camera to capture these images of a green heron in Framingham.
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A white-tailed deer watches a beaver in Framingham, photographed with an automatically triggered wildlife camera by Margaret McKane.
Margaret McKane used her automatically triggered wildlife camera to capture this image of a white-tailed deer watching a beaver in Framingham.
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A cabbage white butterfly at Breakneck Hill Conservation Land in Southborough, photographed by Steve Forman.
Steve Forman photographed a cabbage white butterfly, a great black wasp, monarch butterflies, a grasshopper, an American goldfinch, an eastern kingbird, a gray catbird, a hummingbird clearwing moth, a northern...
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A solitary sandpiper at Hager Pond in Marlborough, photographed by Steve Forman.
Steve Forman photographed solitary sandpipers, a least sandpiper, an osprey, a spotted sandpiper, a killdeer, and a great blue heron at Hager Pond in Marlborough.
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An eastern kingbird at Bruce's Pond in Hudson, photographed by Steve Forman.
Steve Forman photographed an eastern kingbird, a great blue heron, and a belted kingfisher at Bruce's Pond in Hudson.
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An osprey at Bartlett Pond in Northborough, photographed by Steve Forman.
Steve Forman photographed this osprey over Bartlett Pond in Northborough.
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A bumblebee on a buttonbush in Southborough, photographed by Debbie Costine.
Debbie Costine photographed this bumble bee on a buttonbush in Southborough.
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A scarlet tanager at SVT's General Federation of Women's Clubs of Massachusetts Memorial Forest in Sudbury, photographed by Ed Bogle.
Ed Bogle photographed a scarlet tanager and an ovenbird at SVT's General Federation of Women's Clubs of Massachusetts Memorial Forest in Sudbury.

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