by Roger Talbot | Jan 12, 2018 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for January 19, 2018 In the last year of the second millennium beavers found a brook in the northern tip of Middleton. They heard and felt the water flowing out of a large red maple swamp that extended into Boxford and North...
by Roger Talbot | Jan 5, 2018 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for January 12, 2018 [pullquote]”Otters eat perch, catfish, crayfish, minnows, turtles, snakes and even lamprey eels. In their quests for food and in play otters surface about every 30 seconds for air.”[/pullquote]What common local...
by Roger Talbot | Dec 23, 2017 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for December 29, 2017 [pullquote]”Supposedly, the Hooded merganser is the mildest tasting of this group of foul fowls, but I think I’ll have my fish straight off of the hook, thank you.”[/pullquote] A handsome small duck, the...
by Roger Talbot | Dec 9, 2017 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for December 15, 2017 [pullquote]” The cows, cats, and Artie’s horse are long gone. Wildlife is thriving. The native artifacts and mounds are still there but are overgrown and not easily found” [/pullquote] A few days...
by Roger Talbot | Dec 2, 2017 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for December 8, 2017 The Middleton Historical Commission decided in 2016 to mark the site of an important industry here that was started three centuries ago on what is now called Emerson Brook. A dam was built; a mill pond...
by Roger Talbot | Nov 25, 2017 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for December 1, 2017 [pullquote]”Muskrats, like most rodents, have a high reproductive rate. This far north a healthy female in a good environment may have upwards of 3 litters of 6 annually, but here these youngsters don’t mature until they...
