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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 2025    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 great blue heron at Farm Pond in Framingham, photographed by Steve Forman.
Steve Forman photographed a great blue heron, a mallard, a monarch butterfly, and mute swans at Farm Pond in Framingham.
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A downy woodpecker at Breakneck Hill Conservation Land in Southborough, photographed by Steve Forman.
Steve Forman photographed a downy woodpecker, a monarch butterfly, and a red-tailed hawk at Breakneck Hill Conservation Land in Southborough.
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A bald eagle at the Sudbury Reservoir in Southborough, photographed by Steve Forman.
Steve Forman photographed a bald eagle at the Sudbury Reservoir in Southborough.
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A red-tailed hawk in Sudbury, photographed by Sharon Tentarelli.
Sharon Tentarelli photographed a juvenile red-tailed hawk in Sudbury.
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A solitary sandpiper at Greenways Conservation Area in Wayland, photographed by Nicci Meadow.
Nicci Meadow photographed a solitary sandpiper at Greenways Conservation Area in Wayland.
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A bald eagle at Foss Reservoir in Framingham, photographed by Steve Forman.
Steve Forman photographed a bald eagle at Foss Reservoir in Framingham.
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An eastern chipmunk in Framingham, photographed by Steve Forman.
Steve Forman photographed an eastern chipmunk and a ruby-throated hummingbird in Framingham.
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A mallard at Hager Pond in Marlborough, photographed by Steve Forman.
Steve Forman photographed mallards and a spotted sandpiper at Hager Pond in Marlborough.
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A monarch butterfly at Breakneck Hill Conservation Land in Southborough, photographed by Steve Forman.
Steve Forman photographed a monarch and a spicebush swallowtail at Breakneck Hill Conservation Land in Southborough.
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A tiger bee fly in Northborough, photographed by Marnie Frankian.
Marnie Frankian photographed this tiger bee fly in Northborough.
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A great blue heron at Hager Pond in Marlborough, photographed by Steve Forman.
Steve Forman photographed a great blue heron, a herring gull, a ring-billed gull, a spotted sandpiper, a mallard, a red-winged blackbird, and a European starling at Hager Pond in Marlborough.
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A honey bee at Breakneck Hill Conservation Land in Southborough, photographed by Steve Forman.
Steve Forman photographed honey bees, American lady butterflies, a great black wasp, a house sparrow, a pearl crescent butterfly, a sweat bee, an eastern kingbird, a Japanese beetle, a northern...
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A coyote in Bolton, photographed by Gail Sartori.
Gail Sartori photographed this coyote in Bolton.
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White-tailed deer in Stow, photographed with an automatically triggered wildlife camera by Steve Cumming.
Steve Cumming used his automatically triggered wildlife camera to photograph these two white-tailed deer with a plane overhead in Stow.
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A cicada in Westborough, photographed by Tristan Magnay.
Tristan Magnay photographed this cicada in Westborough.

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