Wild Nantucket

Bluebird Great Meadows NWR- Concord    It is November 30 and the season of hope, watchfulness and expectation has begun.  We celebrated this...

  The groundsel has blown away,  the huckleberries are reddish sticks.  The trees are bare,  except for the oaks.  But the winterberries rad...

Josh got a hot tip that there were scallops between First and Second Point on Coatue,  and my haul on Friday inspired us to go out and check...

  I rode off on my mountain bike on the 23rd to make another "Tour de Ponds,"  visiting seven ponds on the Middle Moors,  includin...

  The weather was glorious this week,  and Josh and I took a late afternoon trip on Oct. 22  to the Madequecham Valley.  Well, actually,  we...

The moors are looking browner these days,  with the brightness and contrast coming from the flaming red sumac and the white groundsel.  But ...

  I have stowed the kayak in Polpis Harbor this summer,  and regularly kayak out to Pocomo Meadow and past Quaise Point.  I have been counti...