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Sharon Tentarelli photographed this northern cardinal nest, with two chicks, in Sudbury.

Gerry White photographed these mute swans on the Sudbury River in Wayland.

Craig Smith used an automatically triggered wildlife camera to photograph this American black bear at SVT's General Federation of Women's Clubs of Massachusetts Memorial Forest in Sudbury.  Craig said the bear was obviously very curious about the camera.  When he checked on it, the metal rod holding the camera up was bent over with the camera facing down, and the only photos taken after the bear were of the ground.

Sharon Tentarelli photographed this northern cardinal and its chick at their nest in Sudbury.

Greg Herrema photographed this turkey displaying in his Sudbury back yard.

Lisa Eggleston photographed the following around Sudbury between the end of March and mid-April: tufted titmouse, white-tailed deer, dark-eyed junco, eastern bluebird, skunk cabbage, bufflehead, great blue heron, wood duck, ruddy duck, tree swallow, mallard, muskrat, common merganser, northern cardinal, woodchuck, killdeer.

Craig Smith photographed the following at the Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge in Maynard and Sudbury: belted kingfisher, blue jay, chipping sparrow, great blue heron, red-winged blackbird, yellow-rumped warbler.

Lydia Pastuszek photographed this snapping turtle crossing Marlboro Road in Sudbury.

Greg Dysart photographed this common oak moth at SVT's General Federation of Women's Clubs of Massachusetts Memorial Forest in Sudbury.

Raj Das photographed a green-winged teal at Pantry Brook Wildlife Management Area in Sudbury.

Dawn Dentzer photographed a spotted salamander, a young blue-spotted salamander, an eastern comma butterfly and spotted salamander egg masses around Sudbury.

Joan Butler photographed these mute swans at the Wayside Inn in Sudbury.

Ron McAdow photographed a common garter snake and an eastern bluebird at SVT's General Federation of Women's Clubs of Massachusetts Memorial Forest in Sudbury.  The bluebird was photographed in the new clearing, recently made as part of the Desert Natural Area pitch pine-scrub oak habitat restoration project.

Lydia Pastuszek photographed this pair of downy woodpeckers at her feeder in Sudbury.

Raj Das photographed a downy woodpecker along River Road in Sudbury.

Brenda Shepard photographed this Cooper's hawk in Sudbury.