Dance of the woodcock
In inaugurating a monthly column on the city’s environmental issues and possibilities, Greg Harris shares an avian surprise he stumbled across by Alewife.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville from community Iftar to Opera ‘Cutlass Crew’
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, the North Cambridge Family Opera brings its “Cutlass Crew” to port, Ramadan fasts break, spring arrives at Fresh Pond, there’s lots to offer at museums and libraries (including a celebrity memoir book club) and The Residents play in Harvard Square.
American kestrels: Tiny hunter with cruel talons, watching for prey before a sudden, deadly swoop
Kestrels can be seen locally, but the best migration site in Massachusetts is on Plum Island. Birders counted 402 on a single “massive” day there in 2022.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville: ‘Pests,’ dating horrors and ‘Of the Ether’ dance
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a “Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains” reading, Nick Zaino’s 100 Years of Boston Comedy, Urbanity’s “Of the Ether” dance and a “DM Mayhem” show of horrifying texts from men.
House finches once were popular as singing pets, then found ways to soar when freed into the wild
A group of finches is called a charm, and house finches are one of the more charming bird species. Once popular as pets, their adaptability has allowed them to thrive in many environments to which they have been introduced.
Stormwater overflow brings alert to avoid contact with Charles River, Alewife Brook, parts of Mystic
For the second time this winter, people are warned to avoid contact with local bodies of water due to the presence of sewage in stormwater overflow.
In CitySprouts new book, ‘We Garden Together,’ projects are cream of the crop from 22 years
CitySprouts, our homegrown group of urban gardening educators, has come a long way in 22 years – and now has its own staff-written picture book, “We Garden Together!” with step-by-step photos of introductory nature activities for kids and families.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from Pi Day celebrations to a ‘Cherry Orchard’
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, Pi Day arrives (one event starts at 3:14 p.m.), there are nature walks and seed plantings, board game nights and cozy teas, sacred songs and the scoring of a silent film, St. Patrick’s Day, a “Cherry Orchard” staging and the chance to break a world record.
Eight holidays created by geeks, nerds, wonks and the counterculture grown since the 1970s
Sure, our calendars are filled with increasingly commodified holidays, but they’re also filling up with new days of nationwide significance.
Fishers are elusive and confusing to us humans; Porcupines know them all too well – as hunters
To control the porcupine population, logging companies in Northern New England released fishers into the region. As you might imagine, porcupines, with 30,000 barbed quills, are difficult to kill, but fishers have developed techniques that help them in this battle.
