by Middleton Stream Team | Sep 15, 2017 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for September 22, 2017 Historic Portsmouth, a small city with a great seaport, is less than an hour north of Middleton via an asphalt river that flows from the now suffering Keyes up into Maine. [pullquote]”Beneath the water...
by Middleton Stream Team | Sep 8, 2017 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for September 15, 2017 Naturalist Fred Gralenski in far off Pembroke, Maine, has been sending the Middleton Stream Team his bimonthly, Quoddy Nature Notes, for over a decade. Below is a column from long ago, repeated recently, about hummingbirds....
by Middleton Stream Team | Sep 2, 2017 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for September 8, 2017 On a fine August Sunday afternoon, 11 paddlers in four kayaks and three canoes put in on a half-tide ebb at the end of Island Road in Essex. [pullquote]”Soft shelled clams, razor clams and an occasional...
by Middleton Stream Team | Aug 5, 2017 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for August 11, 2017 Seven paddlers including the Old Closeteer arose in the dark and wondered for a moment why they were doing so. It was four-o’clock; sunrise, their target, was at five-thirty. They planned to greet the sun’s early light on the...
by Middleton Stream Team | Mar 30, 2017 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for March 31, 2017 The other morning Middleton Stream Teamers while spring cleaning the park at Farnsworth Landing on the Ipswich River compared notes on Aix sponsa, wood ducks, recently seen. We agreed that there has been an increase of this species in...
by Middleton Stream Team | Dec 23, 2016 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for December 30, 2016 Ice is back as it should be in December. On Friday, 16 December, the early morning temperature was 0° F; the flags on a fair northwest wind in front of St. Agnes Church, the old Closeteer’s wind gauge, were straight out....
