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EDITOR'S BLOG
Red and Georgia were sitting on the lip of a Long Trail lean-to together, while the rest of us were massed on a nearby picnic table eating lunch. Red was a 20-something Irish-looking kid with a kind face. Georgia was his mutt dog; piebald and floppy-eared...
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THE OUTSIDE STORY
Owl Pellets: Down the Hatch and Back Again
Leah Burdick
"She's so cute!" a little girl coos to the snowy white owl. The owl blinks languidly, ignoring her admirer. No doubt she is used to human attention, as she is one of the more popular raptors housed at the Vermont Institute of Natural Science Nature Center (VINS) in Quechee, Vermont...
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Giant Butterflies Moving North
Susan Shea
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a...? In September of 2012, I spied something fluttering wildly on the lavender phlox in front of my house. At first I thought it was a hummingbird, but as I moved closer I discovered it was a huge butterfly...
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It's metal, it's rusty, and it's hollow. This is a section of a longer piece found in the woods in southern Vermont. What is it?
Every other week we run a photo of something unusual found in the woods. Guess what it is and you'll be eligible to win a copy of The Outside Story, a paperback collection of our Outside Story newspaper columns. A prize winner will be drawn at random from all the correct entries. The correct answer, and the winner's name, will appear in our next e-newsletter.
This week's contest deadline is 8:00 AM, Wednesday, June 25, 2014.
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Previous Contest Answer
Congratulations to our winner Michaeline Mulvey of Bowdoin, ME! Michaeline receives a copy of our book, The Outside Story.
Red petals decorate the forest floor in Windham County, Vermont, on Memorial Day weekend. What are they?
NW Answer:
Diana Todd sent along the photo. She reports that they look like flower petals but are, in fact, leaf bracts from a black cherry. Here's a second photograph showing an unshed leaf bract at the base of newly budded leaves.
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NORTHERN WOODLANDS NEWS
Our cup runneth over. Actually, our inbox spilleth over. Either way, we have a lot of interesting news stories that cross our desks. Here were some of our favorites:
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