In 2015, local historian and videographer, Electa Tritsch, got the inspiration to follow me along the trails at Great Meadows NWR in Concord for a full year, filming its seasonal highlights through my interpretive lens. The result is two 30-minute, on-line video programs featuring the sights and sounds encountered across this marvelous floodplain - a refuge for migratory birds, local wildlife, endangered species, and nature-lovers of all stripes.
A Year in Great Meadows - Part 1 (Spring/Summer)
A Year in Great Meadows - Part 2 (Fall/Winter)
Male marsh wren gathers cattail fluff for his nest |
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Electa Tritsch, producer and intrepid videographer |
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Yours truly |
The result, an informative and inspired introduction to Great Meadows NWR in Concord, which I have been dedicated to observing and interpreting to the public for the past nine years. We document spring leaf-out and dazzling fall foliage, grazing muskrats and gaggles of goslings; explore the remarkable cycles of ordinary milkweed and cattails, summer flowers lining the Dike Trail, and dazzling ice patterns along the river's edge. We listen to crickets and warbler songs, watch gnats swarm, and observe a heron and coyote treading softly across thin ice in search of winter prey. Over nearly a decade, I have photographed seasonal wonders at Great Meadows more than in any other location in Concord, with some 140 of my favorite images included in these two videos.
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Cherrie leading a monthly walk at the refuge |
These links also listed under Resource Links in the right-hand column of this website:
A Year in Great Meadows - Part 1 (Spring/Summer)
A Year in Great Meadows - Part 2 (Fall/Winter)
Errata (missed during post-production review):
Part 2/Fall-Winter: Beaver Business (correcting two brain-freeze moments) - Active beaver lodges typically house two adults and anywhere from 4-7 offspring (yearlings and spring kits); Scent mounds are anointed with Castoreum (not castor oil), which comes from the beaver's castor sacs.
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