1.   The bright red male is a year-round favorite at bird feeders, and this bird is the state bird of seven states (but not Massachusetts).
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2.   This bird was once considered a southern bird but has expanded its range northward into Massachusetts as forests have returned to the state, providing the tall trees this bird needs for nesting.
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3.   Typically found under rotting logs or stumps, this creature has no lungs and instead “breathes” through its skin, and is the most common and abundant of its type in Massachusetts.
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4.   These birds of prey are nature’s clean-up crew, feeding on carrion which they locate with their remarkable sense of smell.
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5.   This plant can hold 25 times its weight in water, but when dead can be mined and burned as the fuel known as peat.
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6.   This salamander is the smallest one in Massachusetts, and breeds in boggy wetlands.
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7.   This small yellow insect-eater has a soft buzzing song and returns in the spring to breed in heavily overgrown, shrubby old fields near water.
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8.   Found along sidewalks, driveways, roads, and paths, this small green plant with yellow button-like blossoms smells like pineapple when any part of it is crushed.
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9.   This large yellow butterfly has black stripes and a forked “tail,” and is a large, smooth green caterpillar in an earlier stage of its life.
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10.   This native shrub bears bristly husks containing nourishing nuts, which are popular with wildlife such as squirrels, chipmunks, mice, ruffed grouse, deer, and blue jays.
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11.   This large white bird is the emblem of the National Audubon Society and stalks fish in the shallows of local ponds when it migrates through our area in August and September.
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12.   This large grayish bird with a long neck, long legs, and long beak used to nest in the dead trees in Mill Pond and is well camouflaged as it fishes along shorelines during much of the year.
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13.   This wild native vine has fleshy red-brown flowers with a heavy scent and produces starchy underground tubers that helped to keep the Pilgrims from starving during their first winters in Massachusetts in 1620s, thanks to local Native Americans who shared their knowledge of it.
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14.   This smart, adaptable, and vocal forest bird hides large numbers of acorns by burying them in the ground and then retrieves most of them to eat later on.
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15.   Sometimes used as a Thanksgiving decoration, this fan-shaped fungus with colorful rings has pores on a white underside and grows in clusters on dead hardwood logs, where it produces “white rot” as it breaks down and recycles materials in the wood.
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16.   This fungus is a look-alike, as its name suggests, but it’s also called leather fungus because of its smooth, brown underside.
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17.   This dramatic natural event shook parts of Massachusetts on August 23, 2011, even though it was centered in Virginia.
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