Cascade Waterfall In Middlesex Fells
Freezing tempertures have turned the Cascade along Shilly Shally Brook to ice. The 40-foot-tall formation in the Middlesex Fells in Melrose is one of the closest waterfalls to Boston—and an…Continue Reading →
Bald Eagles Along Saugus River
We spotted a pair of bald eagles–eating what looked like a rabbit–along the Saugus River and Northern Strand Community Trail in Saugus yesterday, Jan. 28, 2022, as part of research…Continue Reading →
Seals At The Mouth Of The Merrimack
We headed to Salisbury Beach State Reservation again yesterday hoping to chance upon snowy owls, but we didn’t end up much hanging out in the dunes looking for them. Instead…Continue Reading →
The Curious, Edifying Boulders At The Heart Of Gloucester’s Dogtown Woods
In the woods at the heart of Gloucester lies a ghost town, the remnants of an abandoned English colonial settlement today known as Dogtown. There are a number of ways to…Continue Reading →
Magnolias In Fruit At Arnold Arboretum
For some months now, we’ve been studying the Great Magnolia Swamp at Ravenswood Park in Gloucester, which is overseen by The Trustees of Reservations, for a documentary video we’re developing.…Continue Reading →
Otters, Herons, Hawk at Willowdale State Forest
Otters, herons, a hawk, woodpecker, cormorants and frogs at Willowdale State Forest in Topsfield and Ipswich, Massachusetts. Photos from an art and nature video for children that we’re creating, with…Continue Reading →
A Murmuration Of Swallows At Rumney Marsh in Saugus
A week and a half ago, we drove up to the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge looking for thousands of tree swallows that were flocking along marshes on Boston’s North…Continue Reading →
Wildlife Along The Mystic River
Here are photos from our kayak down the Mystic River today, from the Mystic Lakes to Wellington, as part of research we’re doing for a video we’re creating about the…Continue Reading →
Back In Print: Eliot Porter’s First Book: Photos Of New England Wilds, A Call For Conservation
The title of Eliot Porter’s first book of photography, “In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World,” was a quotation from the 19th century Transcendentalist author Henry David Thoreau of…Continue Reading →
‘Big Bugs’ At Portsmouth’s Green Animals Topiary Garden
In the fall of 1990, David Rogers was staying at a cousin’s farm in Vermont’s Green Mountains when he spotted a maple sapling bent from an ice storm the previous…Continue Reading →