by Roger Talbot | Jan 27, 2018 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for February 2, 2018 The old Closeteer has lived near the coast of the Gulf of Maine for three quarters of a century. His playground as a boy and now when clamming is where the continent meshes with the ocean. He experienced this wondrous...
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...
by Roger Talbot | Nov 17, 2017 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for November 24, 2017 [pullquote] “The results of such persistence over the years have provided us with many fine pictures of hard-to-capture wildlife”[/pullquote] Last week photographs from around the watershed were...
by Roger Talbot | Nov 11, 2017 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for November 17, 2017 Dark and light green grasses In cowlicks swirl ’tween soft mud creeks Levied by dune and upland rock Watering place for more than ducks, Has depth and breadth Beyond its bounds. Where larval travelers get their start And subtler...
by Roger Talbot | Nov 4, 2017 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for November 10, 2017 [pullquote]”Natural music from the brook, wind in the trees, and rain drops pattering on leaves and clothes accompanied the hikers.”[/pullquote] After three months with little rain five inches fell here in the last...
