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  • Acclaimed Cottrell-Baldwin Environmental Lecture Series Starts in March

    Anna Berry
    February 22, 2021

    The annual series has moved online this year, with experts exploring topics ranging from restoring wildlife habitat to foraging for edible native plants.

  • Cold is Cool Speaker Series Continues

    Anna Berry
    January 20, 2021

    Plug in to watch and learn from expert speakers and then unplug outside.

  • A New Way to See the Merrimack Watershed

    Anna Berry
    January 12, 2021

    Thanks to the Clean Water Act of 1972, the Merrimack has been cleaned up considerably over the last 50 years. But there is still work to be done.

On the Wings of Spring

Photographer finds new arrivals on Concord floodplain
Ellen Kenny
February 28, 2018
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Red-winged blackbirds returned to Concord last week.

The redwing blackbirds were back on Saturday, or at least that’s when I first heard them. 

Mink by EK resized
This morning I watched the mink in the third picture skitter down from one part of the mill brook to the little island in the brook, at which point he hauled something out of the water —maybe a dead muskrat?  Whatever it was, it had a long dead look about it. It was a big effort for the little mink to haul his bounty into  the hole behind him!

Bluebird by EK resized

The bluebirds were from January, when there was a mixed flock of birds (bluebirds, goldfinches and cedar waxwings) filling the maples over the brook.  I have NEVER seen bluebirds down there before.  I was enchanted.  They were quite lovely. 

 

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