SHADY SWAMPS TO OPEN PONDS AND MEADOWS

SHADY SWAMPS TO OPEN PONDS AND MEADOWS

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...
SASHIMI ON PRICHARD POND ICE

SASHIMI ON PRICHARD POND ICE

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...
Hooded Mergansers

Hooded Mergansers

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...
THE MIDDLETON IRONWORKS REMEMBERED

THE MIDDLETON IRONWORKS REMEMBERED

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...
Muskrats

Muskrats

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...