Shelf Space: What’s New at the Harvard Public Library, 7/10/26
New for Children They Call Me No Sam! by Drew Daywalt Meet Sam, an insolent pug and incidental hero who will stop at nothing…
Wingin’ It: The winter watch
It’s a pretty quiet time of year for bird-watching, though Pam and I did participate in the Christmas bird count in December. The count…
A Look Back: The way we were… Budget season ’78
It was budget season. The School Committee grilled Bromfield principal Michael Horgan on the advisability of building a $4,300 basketball court instead of starting…
Wingin’ It: Books for the birdlover in your life
Christmas is a great opportunity to give books to your birding friends and relatives. The first place to start is a good field guide…
Reflections: Christmas 2007
Like many ministers around the world, I have officiated at hundreds of funerals. The most touching funeral was for a gang member. The best-looking…
Wingin’ It: Vacationing with the birds
A visit to South Carolina Thanksgiving week provided us with an opportunity to see some of the birds that have flown south for the…
It’s Only Natural: Multicolored Asian lady beetles
Whoever would think of a Ladybug As a soldier, brave and bold? His uniform red may have black spots, Or maybe white or gold!…
Wingin’ It: Birding with someone who knows the area
My wife, Pam, and I were looking through the Mass Audubon program brochure recently and thought it would be interesting to take one of…
Reflections: There’s no place like home
When I graduated from the Bromfield School on June 2, 2006, I barely had any time to look back. None in my class did.…
It’s Only Natural: Nature’s winged recycler, the turkey vulture
A relative of storks, the turkey vulture is a familiar sight in the October skies of the Upper Valley. Look for a large, black…
Wingin’ It: Hawks head south, by way of Mt. Wachusett
This is the time of year when birds start returning to their wintering grounds south of here, after breeding in this area and as…
