Spring Returns to Concord

from Discover Concord Spring 2023

Scouting and the Minutemen’s Pursuit Trail

PHOTOGRAPHY BY DAVE WITHERBEE

“One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in.”

Henry David Thoreau

**Lady’s slipper orchids are some of spring’s loveliest flowers. A White Slant-line Moth visits this Lady’s Slipper.**
© Dave Witherbee

**The male Oriole dines while the female builds the hanging nest.**
© Dave Witherbee

**The Great Blue Heron in a morning spring glow.**
© Dave Witherbee

**The soft green colors of spring on the river.**
© Dave Witherbee

**This disheveled Wood Duck is getting ready to court a female. Wish him luck!**
© Dave Witherbee

**The frogs are coming out from the mud.**
© Dave Witherbee

**A Pileated Woodpecker bends its neck to gather insects—a much easier job in the spring than it was in the winter.**
© Dave Witherbee

Dave Witherbee has been traveling the trails and rivers of Concord for 50 years and has been enchanted with the small and large aspects of its nature. Dave’s love of photography has enhanced the attraction.

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