Written by Gwyn Loud for the Lincoln Land Conservation Trust. She welcomes your sightings and questions at 781-259-8690 of gwynloud555@gmail.com The past month has seen wide swings in temperature, with summery days (up to 80℉!) at the end of October and the first hard frost in early November. In my garden it came the night of November 1, but even a few feet in elevation can mean that the first frost occurs on different dates around town. During the unseasonably warm days some lilacs and forsythia even bloomed. Many deciduous trees still have leaves, giving a flickering display of green, gold a ..read more

Written by Gwyn Loud for the Lincoln Land Conservation Trust. She welcomes your sightings and questions at 781-259-8690 or gwynloud555@gmail.com October arrived feeling like summer, with temperatures up in the 80s during the first week. Rainfall in MetroWest for September was 4.62”  exceeding the September average of 3.77”, making this the third month in a row where precipitation exceeded its monthly average. Rainy weekends were the pattern.  Fall foliage seems both late and muted this year. Although there are spots of bright color, some trees, probably due to excessive rain and fung ..read more

Written by Gwyn Loud for the Lincoln Land Conservation Trust. She welcomes your sightings and questions at 781-259-8690 or gwynloud555@gmail.com Fall will arrive on Sept. 23, the autumnal equinox, but the first week of the month felt as if we were going back into summer. Unusually high temperatures and humidity made life uncomfortable, and I think we are  all eager for cool, dry, crisp autumn days. August brought more rain. The historical average August rainfall  for Metro-West is 3.72” and we more than doubled it, with 8.41”. Streams are rushing and ponds are full. This is a seaso ..read more

Sunday, October 15, 2023 - 9:30 am - 12:00 pm ..read more

Tuesday, October 3, 2023 - 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm ..read more

The 2023 Nest Box Monitoring Season wrapped up in mid-August. Patti Cable, LLCT’s volunteer monitor submitted a summary of the 2023 season. Check out the highlights below. Patti documented 8 Eastern Bluebird nesting attempts and 4 Tree Swallow nesting attempts this year. She observed 34 Bluebird fledglings and 14 Tree Swallow fledglings. By contrast, 2022 yielded 23 Eastern Bluebird fledglings and 11 Tree Swallow fledglings. Over the course of the season, Patti made 150 unique nest box visits, keeping a careful eye on the progression of each brood. Thank you Patti!     The pos ..read more

A warm thanks to Sasha Astrof and Matt Morris for their hard work this summer as land stewards. LLCT and the Town of Lincoln Conservation Department jointly hired the two interns to work two days a week for each organization, a collaboration that has made it easier to offer full time internship opportunities and tackle larger land land stewardship projects for the past two summers. Matt writes that he “learned a lot this summer about the importance of protecting and maintaining conservation land” and that his favorite project this summer was going out on the Sudbury River to pull invasive wate ..read more

Written by Gwyn Loud for the Lincoln Land Conservation Trust. She welcomes your sightings and questions at 781-259-8690 or gwynloud555@gmail.com So far, Lincoln has escaped the record-breaking heat which has gripped the southern US and much of the world. Climate change driven by human use of fossil fuels and exacerbated by El Nino, is impacting millions of people, not just with excessive heat but with severe weather, bringing floods, wildfires, tornadoes, and more. We all see the pictures and we must not assume we are immune. Locally, our summer to date has been very humid, with lots of rain a ..read more

Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm ..read more

Sunday, July 9, 2023 - 9:00 am - 11:00 am ..read more