Excited to see a beautiful female Red-breasted Merganser up close while she was taking a break from diving at Horn Pond. They are fast-flying ducks, reaching speeds over 80mph!

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A beautiful Wood Frog I helped across the road! To survive cold winter months, wood frogs hunker down under the leafy layers of the forest floor and undergo an incredible freezing process until Spring, when they are the first to fill the woods with their trills. Stow, MA

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On a warm night with & temp. above 40F our amphibian friends wake up from their winter slumber and migrate downstream to vernal pools.
Here's a Wood Frog I photographed. Mar. 5 Stow, MA

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Behold this sweet White-throated Sparrow floofed up on a cold day.

~ Horn Pond, Woburn, MA

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A sweet Eastern Bluebird on a cold wintery day.

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The cuteness of a Black-capped Chickadee.

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How to eat a blueberry by Chippy.

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A Spring Peeper (Pseudacris crucifer), barely an inch long, resting on a leaf on a sunny summer's day.

Medford MA, youth winner Mass Audubon Photography Award

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A Blue Dasher perched on a twig

Location: Concord, MA

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A Peck's Skipper (Polites peckius) on Bee Balm plant.

Location: Lexington, MA

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The flowers of the Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) nourish many species of butterflies, especially the Monarch. The female Monarch lays her eggs only on milkweed, and the caterpillars feed exclusively on the leaves.

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An Eastern Chipmunk

~photo by Aranya Karighattam

Location: Cambridge MA