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  • Forestry Friday: The Rare Milkweed Garden at the Gardner Forest

    Sophie Oehler
    September 15, 2023

    In this Forestry Friday, the forestry team takes a trip to the Gardener Forest in Hollis to check in on a population of a rare species of milkweed. (Photo: Sophie Oehler)

  • Something Wild: Why the treeline of Mt. Washington is not a line

    Dave Anderson, Chris Martin, Jessica Hunt
    August 24, 2023

    In this second episode of our series, Dave Anderson of the Forest Society and Chris Martin of NH Audubon are exploring the different forest zones on the flanks of the mountain, below the treeline.

  • Something Wild: Atop Mt. Washington

    Dave Anderson, Chris Martin, Jessica Hunt
    August 3, 2023

    The Something Wild team is above treeline on Mount Washington, exploring the ecological zones of New England’s highest peak. 

    While many visitors focus on summiting, Chris Martin of NH Audubon and Dave Anderson of the Forest Society are examining how both flora and fauna vary as the ...

March Celebrates Spring

Ellen Kenny
March 27, 2019
Wildlife
Geese and mallards welcome spring on the floodplain brook
A Canada goose and mallards welcome spring on the floodplain. All photos by Ellen Kenny.

Finally. March High Holy Days of open water in the marsh: a congregation of raucous geese honking out hallelujahs, righteous gossip from the mallards, a choir of chanting redwing blackbirds with wood ducks wailing the soprano line, presided over from above, in full vestments, by the great blue heron. 

So much to see... Hooded mergansers and a muskrat in the Mill Brook, and a coyote weaving in and out the treeline on the far side of the cove. I had to run (as best I could in my spikes over the icy path) back to the parking lot, once again trailing the school buses to work. 

I’m always amazed at how quickly it happens—how we go from one or two bold cardinals, to this sudden cacophony of sound, with newcomers dropping in hourly for the celebration—and this is just the beginning. 

Ducks in the water during early spring in Concord, New Hampshire
Ducks all around: Green winged teals, hooded merganser, and a wood duck

Red-winged black bird calling during early spring in Concord, New Hampshire
The red-winged black bird's conk-la-ree! call is a classic sound of spring.

Great Blue Heron during early spring in Concord, New Hampshire
Great Blue Heron

Mergansers and a goose during spring in Concord, New Hampshire
Hooded mergansers and a Canada goose

Merganser mid-bite into a fish in Concord, New Hampshire
This merganser got a fish!

Melting snow and March light on the floodplain in Concord, New Hampshire
Melting snow and March light on the floodplain

Ellen Kenny is a photographer and teacher who frequents the floodplain in Concord. Ellen volunteers with the Forest Society to share her observations throughout the year.

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