A hummingbird approaches a sunflower in the pick-your-own sunflower field at Verrill Farm in Concord, August 23, 2023. Ken McGagh for The Concord Bridge
A group of cygnets stay close to their mother while one lucky child gets a ride at Bartlett Pond in Northborough on May 18, 2006.
Basking in its reflected glory, a great blue heron squawks at its reflection while hunting for fish along the banks of Fiske Pond in Natick on Wednesday, April 8, 2020.
"Chip" a six week-old Capuchin monkey is fed human infant baby formula by Betsey Brewer, owner of Southwick's Zoo in Mendon, April 25, 2012. Chip was pulled from the exhibit after becoming very ill and Brewer has assumed the role of Chip's mother.
A swan and its mate form a heart as they pause from foraging for food amidst foliage reflected in the still waters of Fiske Pond in Natick, Oct. 21, 2022.
An adult great blue heron comes in for a landing in a nest in a marshy area off Rte. 16 in Sherborn as the rest of the family watch in May, 2013.
An American bald eagle perches on a branch as snow falls at Hopkinton State Park on Wednesday, February 10 2016.
A group of students from Dana Hall in Wellesley explore an enormous sunflower field at Hanson's Farm in Framingham, Oct. 15, 2021.
An adult osprey carries a fish plucked from the Waseeka Wildlife Sanctuary pond, a Mass Audubon property on the Hopkinton/Holliston line, July 12, 2013.
A cygnet pokes its head through the feathers of the mother swan as the other six stay dry underneath in their nest on Farm Pond in Framingham May 9, 2013.
The sun melts snow on berries in South Natick Wednesday, December 11, 2019 following an overnight snowstorm.
A swallowtail butterfly lands on a flower in a flower and herb field at Heirloom Harvest Community Farm in Westborough, Aug. 3, 2016.
A gosling flaps its tiny wings and sticks out its tongue in the direction of a sibling at Hopedale Pond Wednesday, May 9, 2018.
A wild turkey appears to peer inside DiCicco's Auto Body at 18 South Ave. in Natick, where a help wanted sign is posted, on January 8, 2016. The roving turkey had taken up residence in the downtown area.
An osprey drops a fish into the nest atop a dead tree at the Mass Audubon Waseeka Wildlife Sanctuary in Hopkinton Wednesday, July 17.
A butterfly feasts on an Echinacea flower, commonly known as a purple coneflower, near pumpkins for at Stone Tavern Farm in Sudbury, Oct. 3, 2017.
A hummingbird feasts on zinnia flowers at Hanson's Farm in Framingham August 27 2019.
Biologists from the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife work to free an injured juvenile great horned owl that got tangled in a soccer net in Weston on July 25, 2012.
A bee buzzes around sunflowers in a new garden behind the Center School in Hopkinton, Sept. 11, 2012.