POTD 12/31/25
December 31, 2025 - BUNNY BUDDY - The Eastern Cottontail Rabbit has been coming into the patio garden on a pretty regular schedule.
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POTD 12/30/25
December 30, 2025 - NOT SINGING IN THE RAIN - A Titmouse braves freezing rain at the bird bath.
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POTD 12/29/25
December 29, 2025 - GETTING FLUFFY - Small birds, like this Junco, stay warm in winter through insulation by fluffing feathers to add down....
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POTD 12/28/25
December 28, 2025 - SNOW BUNNY - The resident Eastern Cottontail Rabbit forages for twigs and sprouts in deep snow.
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POTD 12/27/25
December 27, 2025 - JUMP AND BUMP - At least one of the turkeys in the flock that hangs out in the yard has learned to jump and bump the fee...
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POTD 12/24/25
December 24, 2025 - ON OUR WAY TO A WHITE CHRISTMAS - A male Downy Woodpecker dodges the snowflakes bringing a white Christmas to New Hampsh...
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POTD 12/23/25
December 23, 2025 - WINTER SKY - The Winter Solstice marks the beginning of astronomical winter, the shortest day of the year, but not neces...
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POTD 12/22/25
December 22, 2025 - WINTER SOLSTICE SUNRISE - Sunrise is actually a little later for a few weeks after the winter solstice. Even though the...
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POTD 12/21/25
December 21, 2025 - BRRRR AGAIN - After a day of warm weather - and even rain - it is back to winter on the beaver pond.
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POTD 12/20/25
December 20, 2025 - DECEMBER BATH WEATHER - It was warm enough to rain - and warm enough for a Junco to bathe in a puddle on the patio.
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POTD 12/19/25
December 19, 2025 - MAKING LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS OF WINTER - The annual Luminary Festival at Hampshire Country School lit up the campus with...
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POTD 12/18/25
December 18, 2025 - BROOK ART - Bubbles in the brook from the beaver pond make patterns in the ice. Nature makes the coolest patterns.
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POTD 12/17/25
December 17, 2025 - SOMETHING TO GROUSE ABOUT - We see Grouse occasionally - like this one off the driveway - as they thrive in logged fores...
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POTD 12/16/25
December 16, 2025 - EVERYONE IS CHEWING - An Eastern Gray Squirrel chomps a Rhododendron bud as its leaves curl in the cold.
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POTD 12/15/25
December 15, 2025 - BUNNYISH - An Eastern Cottontail rabbit eats Ivy off of the patio retaining wall. Rabbits eat woody sprigs and twigs in...
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POTD 12/14/25
December 14, 2025 - TURKEYS AT SUNRISE - A group of turkeys scoots across the yard under a red sunrise.
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POTD 12/13/25
December 13, 2025 - ANOTHER MONADNOCK - Clouds over Pack Monadnock - locals will know it from the communications towers on it. East of its b...
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POTD 12/12/25
December 12, 2025 - SNOW BUNNY - We don't hit the slopes any more to see the ski snow bunnies - but the bunny hanging around our yard has st...
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POTD 12/11/25
December 11, 2025 - SNOW PODS - Milkweed seed pods...having long since released their airborne seeds, collect snow in the pollinator garden.
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POTD 12/10/25
December 10, 2025 - EARLY HOLIDAY TREAT - A Downy Woodpecker enjoys the seed cake that was an early Christmas present (to us;-)...Our family...
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POTD 12/9/25
December 09, 2025 - LONG SHADOWS - Shadows stretch across the beaver pond. Shadows are longer near the winter solstice (Dec. 21st) because E...
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POTD 12/8/25
December 08, 2025 - FOREST SUNSET -Approaching the winter solstice the sunset is earlier every day. The winter solstice occurs when Earth's...
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POTD 12/7/25
December 07, 2025 - SNOWY ROAD TO TOWN - We get to town once in a while and the road is always pretty.
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POTD 12/6/25
December 06, 2025 - MORE COLD MOON - December's full moon is called the Cold Moon because it rises during the chilliest, darkest part of win...
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POTD 12/5/25
December 05, 2025 - MOON LIT - December's full moon - the Cold Moon - is bright enough to reflect off our solar array. Not sure it will gene...
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POTD 12/4/25
December 04, 2025 - DEEP SNOW - An Eastern Gray Squirrel contemplates the 8" of snow below the patio chair. The squirrels were looking for a...
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POTD 12/3/25
December 03, 2025 - IT SNOWED ALL DAY - I was pretty much the only thing happening outside Tuesday. Selfie in the slider with anti-bird cras...
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POTD 12/2/25
December 02, 2025 - PLEASANT PHEASANT - A female Ring-necked Pheasant scrounges crabapples from landscape trees in a supermarket parking lot...
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POTD 12/1/25
December 01, 2025 - GRAND MONADNOCK - Mount Monadnock is the most prominent mountain peak in southern New Hampshire. At 3,165 feet it is nea...
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