Below you'll find a list of all posts from 2010
The water has come up with yesterday’s rain. This morning it is snowing! These pictures just in from the channel. A reader from the northern end of the lake writes: “I JUST LOOKED OUT MY WINDOW AND SAW 2 SWANS IN THE SMALL UNFROZEN WATER NEAR BLUEBERRY ISLAND. THE ARE TOO FAR AWAY TO GET A PICTURE, BUT I GOT MY BINOCULARS AND THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL.”
The annual Great Backyard Bird Count will be held at 2 p.m. Feb. 21 at West Hill Dam Park, 518 East Hartford Ave. Park Ranger Viola Bramel is gathering data to enter in the Cornell University annual Backyard Bird Count. Participants should dress for the weather and be prepared to hike. When the black and white species pictured is not in the tree, we commonly see dark-eyed juncos, black-capped chickadees, sparrows, titmouse, cardinals, nuthatches, robins, blue jays, and one little wren my daughter calls the “chipmunk bird” feeding at the suet and seed feeders. A thistle feeder was put up a week ago but no one is interested yet. A call came in a week ago about a suet feeder being ripped from its post and carried off over on the Douglas woods side of the lake. With raccoons commonly seen over there, they are likely the culprit. The caller was concerned about bears. While a bear was spotted some years ago on the Manchaug Pond shoreline at a bird feeder, we still have a month or so before we have to worry about their spring appearance. I’ll let you know when MassWildlife sends out their email to take the …
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… Happy Valentine’s Day! Thank you to the Board member for sending in today’s photo!
Prindle Lake and dam in Charlton, Massachusetts was not only the topic of conversation and questions at this January’s COLAP conference but appeared in Saturday’s Worcester Telegram. Saturday, February 6, 2010 Legislation to help save lake New law lets town acquire Prindle dam By Debbie LaPlaca CORRESPONDENT CHARLTON — Special state legislation permitting the town to save Prindle Lake by acquiring and repairing its dam has been signed into law by Gov. Deval L. Patrick. The new law authorizes the town to acquire dams within its boundaries, make improvements to the dams and assess betterments to fund repairs. “The town of Charlton and the lakefront property owners looked to me to file a bill and I delivered a resolution to them as quickly as possible,” state Sen. Stephen M. Brewer, D-Barre, said in an announcement Thursday. The lake, manmade more than 100 years ago to power a mill on Cady Brook, is used recreationally by the public, including about 85 shore property owners. When the dam failed an inspection in 2006, the state Office of Dam Safety ordered owner Santos Irrevocable Trust to repair or breach it by November 2009, or face a fine of up to $500 a day. …
With this morning’s temperature hanging at the zero mark on the thermometer, we are back making ice! This photo came in mid-January from a reader with the title “skiidoos!” Don’t you love it! We also received a request from another reader:“Hi I was just wondering if you heard any reports on how thick the ice is. Thanks.” Can anyone out there give us some numbers? The channel is open but I am sure the main part of the lake is thICK! Sorry the blog has been quiet for a couple days! The organization is busy: a lake conference, 319 grant meeting, & much planning and typing have taken this week! 2010 promises to be packed with events! Stay tuned …
Here’s a few words from MassWildlife:Stay safe on the ice Marion LarsonOutreach Coordinator, MassWildlife With the recent bone-chilling temperatures, many bodies of water iced over and ice fishermen, skaters and others are impatient to get out on the ice. Before venturing onto any frozen water body, here are some common sense measures you can take to make sure that the ice is safe. Check ice by using a chisel to chop a hole to determine ice thickness and condition. In general 4 inches of clear blue ice is safe for foot traffic. Because the thickness of the ice will not be uniform all over the pond or lake, continue to chop more holes as you go further out on to the ice. Don’t venture onto ice bound rivers or streams since currents make ice thickness unpredictable.Ice Thickness(inches) Permissible Load(clear, blue, lake ice)2″ or less STAY OFF!4″ Ice fishing or other activities on foot5″ Snowmobile or ATV8″ – 12″ Car or small pickup truck12″ – 15″ Medium truck Before you set out on the ice, be sure to wear or carry ice pins or picks. Ice pins are a set of two wooden dowels fixed with a spike that sticks out …
