The Loons on Highland Lake began nesting the week before Father’s Day. This year’s nest site is on the west side of the island and just north of the big rock. This makes the nest especially vulnerable to wave activity. Wake boating and tubing was seen to cause a near washout to the nest […]
Beautiful, but are poisonous to cattle and horses
Beginning in March 2020 when the “COVID-19 lockdown” began, I decided to devote some time to wandering the forest of Dragonfly Farm. We had been producing maple syrup for use and giveaway for a few years, but I had never really investigated the forest land portion of the property, other than the sugarbush. So, in […]
The Highland Lake loons arrived back after an early ice-out on March 17th. I was able to confirm in early May that the nesting pair- banded a few years back – are in fact the pair occupying the territory. Both have blue over silver bands on the right leg. He has green on the left […]
FNRT launches Trail User Experience survey
FNRT volunteers have been working hard recently to open the Trail after several severe weather events. Three teams of FNRT maintenance volunteers cleared fallen limbs off the Trail in Andover and Danbury on April 13. Forty-five downed trees were counted in a two-mile stretch in South Danbury! Earlier that week, the New Hampshire Bureau of […]
Reminder about ban and buyback program
The Loon Preservation Committee (LPC) and the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department (NHFG) want to remind anglers about the ban on lead sinkers and jigs weighing one ounce or less for all freshwater in the state. The Loon Preservation Committee recently recorded the first loon mortality from lead tackle ingestion of 2024 on Merrymeeting […]
Now that May is finally here, we hope that we’ve seen the last soggy snows and freezing temperatures of April (T. S. Eliot’s “cruelest month”). My wife and I spent much of our day outdoors yesterday, sawing up and clearing away the last of the broken tree limbs in the yard, repairing the damage to […]
The Highland Lake resident Canada geese have returned to their annual breeding grounds and nesting sites in the riparian areas around the lake. They will lay clutches of 6–10 eggs over the course of a week. After a 28-day incubation, goslings will hatch during May and mature by foraging in flocks where there are open […]