Written by Gwyn Loud for the Lincoln Land Conservation Trust. She welcomes your sightings and questions at 781-259-8690 of gwynloud555@gmail.com The weather over the past month has vacillated between unusually warm (e.g. 60℉ on Dec. 3) and very cold, causing a skim of ice on ponds. Looking back at December columns for recent years, this … Read more
Written by Gwyn Loud for the Lincoln Land Conservation Trust. She welcomes your sightings and questions at 781-259-8690 or gwynloud555@gmail.com. The colors of the landscape are more muted now that most leaves have fallen, including the spectacular oranges and reds of sugar maples. Many oaks, however, cling to their leaves in a rich display of … Read more
Written by Gwyn Loud for the Lincoln Land Conservation Trust. She welcomes your sightings and questions at 781-259-8690 or gwynloud555@gmail.com. The past month has seen considerable sways in temperature, with the thermometer dipping into the thirties sporadically, but also a few summery days in the seventies. We have had some days of welcome rain, but … Read more
Written by Gwyn Loud for the Lincoln Land Conservation Trust. She welcomes your sightings and questions at 781-259-8690 or gwynloud555@gmail.com. What a difference a year makes: my column for September 2021 described our unusually wet summer! We certainly could have used some of that rain this summer, as we have been in severe or critical … Read more
Patti Cable continued to volunteer for LLCT as a nest box monitor in 2022. She monitored 10 boxes throughout the season, starting in March. The last boxes were cleaned out and closed up in August. There are eight boxes in Chapman Pasture, one box in a small clearing near Twin Pond, and one box in … Read more
Written by Gwyn Loud for the Lincoln Land Conservation Trust. She welcomes your sightings and questions at 781-259-8690 or gwynloud555@gmail.com. This column will resume in September. We have enjoyed many sunny days over the past month, good for human activities such as picnics, day camps, and swimming. Aerial insectivores such as swallows have also benefited, … Read more
Please take a moment this week and email or call your state representative and senator and ask them to support two pieces of legislation that would bolster pollinator habitat in MA. Don’t know who your legislators are? Use this link: https://malegislature.gov/search/findmylegislator The first piece of legislation is H.4603, An Act to Protect Pollinator Habitat Here’s a template … Read more
A crowd enjoyed getting up close and personal with snakes on June 15th at the “Snakes of New England and the World” program led by Rick Roth of the Cape Ann Vernal Pond Team.
Written by Gwyn Loud for the Lincoln Land Conservation Trust. She welcomes your sightings and questions at 781-259-8690 or gwynloud555@gmail.com. Summer arrives officially on June 21, the solstice, but we had a preview of the new season with sizzling temperatures and high humidity on May 21 and 22 ( a high of 97 ℉ ). … Read more
The Dark Sky Bill scored a victory a few months ago. The Senate version (S.2147) was voted FAVORABLY out of the Telecommunication, Utilities, and Energy (TUE) Committee and forwarded to the Senate Ways & Means Committee. The House version (H.3306) was retained in TUE with an extension, and a plan to bundle it together with … Read more
