April showers bring many more photos than were taken from January through March! I took at least thirteen different woods walks in New Hampshire, plus walks around town, and the garden was starting to awaken.
Walks and Sights in New Hampshire
THE FELLS (Newbury) – in early and late April
chionodoxa 
wood frogs in vernal pool 
drumstick primrose 
heath 
pasque flowers 
pulmonaria flowers 
squirrel 
bees at hives 
chionodoxa 
white hepatica (Hepatica nobilis) 
bluets 
KEZAR LAKE (Sutton) – also in early and late April
coltsfoot 
witch hazel 
first loon sighting 
turtle, reflected 
The Infant moth (Archiearis infans) 
trillium 
healing stump cairn 
white-throated sparrow 
false hellebore 
maybe palm warbler
LOW PLAIN (New London) – early and mid-April
frog 
mallard 
arbutus 
hooded merganser 
turtles 
wood duck and mallard 
Canada goose 
icy entrance path
OTHER NH TRAIL WALKS in Concord, Hanover, and the Kearsarge area
oriole nest 
polka dot lichen on boulder 
marsh marigold 
pink trailing arbutus 
great blue heron 
pine plantation 
path near Merrimack River 
maple buds 
maple leafing out 
robin 
wood ducks 
bog 
wood frog 
rattlesnake plantain 
kettle in leaves 
woolly bear 
bloodroot 
scilla 
false hellebore emerging 
spores of polypody fern 
hobblebush bud 
Lake Sunapee 
ice in rocks 
area code carved into bench 
striped maple tree bud 
water insect 
reflections in pond
Food
basil cucumber gimlet and Smutty Nose tangerine IPA at local restaurant outside 
snacks with homemade spinach-artichoke dip 
Ritual G&Ts and snacks
Zoom
Enjoyed a few online webinars this month, including ‘Avian Life on the Delmarva Coast’ from Mt. Cuba Center and “Birds of Arizona: A Virtual Tour” from the Vermont Center for Ecostudies. Both were excellent. Plus the usual cocktail-making events with Boston-area bartenders, and weekly zooming with my friends groups.
an Arizona bird 
House & Garden
CAT
HOUSE
reading 
woodstove fire – 21 April 
Easter flowers from sister, snow outside 
Easter flowers from sister
GARDEN
porcupine on motion camera 
lilac buds 
fox sparrow 
bear on motion camera 
hellebore 
hellebore 
hellebore 
hellebore 
deer on motion camera 
fruit guild, 16 April 
‘Rote Glock’ pasqueflower 
daphne stem 
bloodroot 
coltsfoot 
hazelnut catkins 
phoebe 
white-throated sparrow 
chipping sparrow 
robin
And … fully vaxxed in April!
