Baby Chipping Sparrow

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Butterfly Courtyard Willowdale Estate©Kim Smith 2013

Notice the two gardenia trees in the large planters in the background. Weren’t we startled  several weeks ago to find a nest tucked in the crook of the gardenia branches, with an egg!! The planters are moved often enough to accommodate wedding ceremonies, but that didn’t deter in the least the highly adaptable Chipping Sparrow from building its nest.

Baby Chipping Sparrow ©Kim Smith 2013Baby Chipping Sparrow 

Chipping SparrowParent Chipping Sparrow. The mom/pop waited anxiously, with a fat green caterpillar dangling from its mouth, for me to stop photographing. As soon as I moved away, it  flew to the nest to deposit the worm into the hungry baby’s wide-open mouth. The entire time I was there delivering plants Sunday afternoon, the baby never closed its mouth!

The song of the Chipping Sparrow is a lovely trill and you can hear it well on this video. They also make a piercing flight call, a characteristic sound of the evening sky during their annual spring and fall migration.

Lecture Tonight for the Southboro Open Land Foundation

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Pollinators: the Birds, Butterflies and Bees (7:00 – 8:45 pm): Southborough Open Land Foundation welcomes Kim Smith, a specialist on pollinators, such as butterflies and other insects, and their important role in sustaining the earth. She will share a stunning slide show and informative lecture, The Pollinator Garden. Presentation includes “BomBom Butterfly” video demonstrating the life cycle of the Black Swallowtail Butterfly. A list of possible plants for your property will be provided. Event is free and open to the public – will be held in main reading room of the Southboro Library, 25 Main Street.

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Music Happening Around Cape Ann Tonight and Wednesday

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Tuesday, June 4, 2013

KBMG 7:00 pm Listen to KBMG KBMG

King, Brown, Mattacks, Ginandes
86 Main Street, Gloucester, MA 01930

Phone: 978-283-8228

FREE SHOW
9:00 pm  HENLEY DOUGLAS JR.

Funk Jamm and Soul Force V
40 Railroad Ave, Gloucester, MA

Phone: 978-283-9732

FREE SHOW
9:30 pm  FATS HAMMOND

w/ Marty Rowan, Ken Clarke, Mike Mele & Benny Benson
285 Cabot St, Beverly, MA 01915

Phone: 978-921-2233

FREE SHOW

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

6:00 pm  DAISY NELL & CAPT. STAN

Benefit for the schooner Adventure
63 Rogers Street, Gloucester, MA 01930

Phone: 978-283-1812
John Rockwell 7:00 pm Listen to John Rockwell JOHN ROCKWELL folk folk-rock country

3 Duncan Street, Gloucester, MA 01930

Phone: 978.281.3997

FREE SHOW
7:30 pm  GARRETT SAVLUK

w/ “Sax” Gordon Beadle
285 Cabot St, Beverly, MA 01915

Phone: 978-921-2233

FREE SHOW
Fly Amero 8:00 pm Listen to Fly Amero FLY AMERO

dinner w/ Fly and special guest Toni Ann
40 Railroad Ave, Gloucester, MA

Phone: 978-283-9732

FREE SHOW
9:00 pm  CRAZY JAY

Karaoke
65 Main Street, Gloucester, MA 01930

Phone: 978-281-6565

FREE SHOW
dennis monagle 9:00 pm Listen to dennis monagle DENNIS MONAGLE

Monagle Session featuring BANDIT KINGS!
25 Rogers Street, Gloucester, MA 01930

Phone: 978-281-0223

FREE SHOW

Castle Manor Music Schedule for June

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We have entertainment out on the beautiful deck over looking the river.  See our listing here

Friday, June 14th 7:00 to 10:00 Toni Ann & David Brown

Sunday, June 16th 5:00 to 10:00 Toni Ann Enes

Thursday, June 20th 7:00 to 10:00 DJ Scottie Mac

Friday June 21st 7:00 to 10:00 Inge Berge

Sunday, June 23rd 5:00 to 8:00 Toni Ann Enes & Frank Hawkes

Friday, June 28th 7:00 to 10:00 Tom O’Brian (in the band Boru)

Sunday, June 30th Toni Ann Enes & Dave Koen

Hope to see you there supporting local music!

Larry Carsman performs at Giuseppe’s on Sunday June 9th

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SINGER/GUITARIST LARRY CARSMAN PERFORMS SUNDAY
JUNE 9 AT GIUSEPPE’S RESTAURANT IN GLOUCESTER
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Larry Carsman, master singer/guitarist who interprets songs from Springsteen to Segovia, performs Saturday night June 9 from 6-9 PM at Giuseppe’s Restaurant, on Main Street in Gloucester’s West End.

Carsman cofounded the James Montgomery Band in 1971. He also taught guitar to many local luminaries — including Livingston Taylor, Pete Kennedy (The Kennedys), Chuck
McDermott (Wheatstraw) and many others.

Since the mid 70s, Larry has focused on selecting and arranging a vibrant repertoire for solo performance — drawn from traditional and modern jazz, blues, classical, Brazilian, folk, soul and contemporary artists.

Live and on his 2009 solo debut CD Better Late, his warm vibrant voice blends
effortlessly with his nylon-strung classically fingered guitar. Larry’s influences and songs
span a rich diverse range of vintage and modern artists – Mose Allison, Josh White, B.B.
King, Buddy Guy, Big Bill Broonzy, John Coltrane, Lightning Hopkins, Miles Davis,
Bruce Springsteen, Blossom Dearie, Julian Bream, Carlos Jobim, Gilberto Gil and Luis
Bonfa.

Billy Novick, celebrated musician and producer of Better Late, says: “Larry definitely
makes the songs his own. But because he has such a deep knowledge, respect and love of
so many different types of music, the songs are all genuine, soulful, and different…
There’s no loss of a song’s emotion or integrity when Larry performs it. In fact, the songs
become much richer, because of his imaginative yet nuanced interpretations.”

For reservations, call Guiseppe’s Restaurant @ 978/879-4622

Contacts:
James Buhrendorf 978/879.7230
Larry Carsman 978/526-4626
http://www.larrycarsman.com

What Time Is It Mr. Fox and The Rockport High School Madrigal Choir ” A Little Bit Of Blue” 5.31.2013

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Stripers Are In!!!

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Hi Joey,

Mike Muniz holds up a striper he caught while fishing with his friend, Manny Silva, in Wonson Cove.  Apparently this one was caught in water that was less than 5 feet deep!

Enjoy!
~Bill O’Connor
North Shore Kid

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Sailbots. You heard me sucka, SAILBOTS!!!!!

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The SailBot 2013 International Robotic Sailing Regatta is a robotic sailing competition historically held in North America in which teams of university and college students compete. This year’s event takes place in Gloucester harbor! The goal is to create an unmanned sailboat that navigates through a variety of challenges with limited, if any, human control. Students are able to use this friendly competition between schools to apply their engineering knowledge in a multi-disciplinary task that requires mechanical, electrical, and software skill to deal with this highly variable environment. Teams are headquartered at Maritime Gloucester and races will occur off Pavillion Beach in the outer harbor. Project presentations will take place at Endicott College’s Gloucester campus.

Monday 10 June 2013

9:00 – 2:00 pm – Navigation Accuracy

3:00 pm – Fleet Race 1 for 2-meter boats

4:30 pm – Fleet Race 1 for 1-meter boats

Tuesday 11 June 2013

9:00 – 2:00 pm – Stationkeeping

3:00 pm – Fleet Race II for 1-meter boats

4:30 pm – Fleet Race II for 2-meter boats

Wednesday 12 June 2013

9:00 am – Chase Race for 1-meter boats

1:00 pm – Long Distance Race start for 1-meter boats

4:30 pm – Long Distance Race start for 2-meter boats

Babson Boulders at home

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The Babson Boulders of Dogtown are one of the harder-to-find attractions in Gloucester; you have to download a map and go trekking through the woods. It’s well worth the walk, and can be a lot of fun (especially when it isn’t tick-and-mosquito season).

But you can also get your own miniature, customized “Babson Boulders” at home. Here’s mine:

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It was a gift from the artist, my friend Michael Foley.  I don’t know of anyone else who makes these!  You can see more of his work, including other “boulders”, on his website or on Facebook. He also has work at “The Art Nook” on Bearksin Neck.

– Matthew Green

 

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The Latest Striper Video From Brianmoc

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After one of the slowest May in years (10 years according to my logs) warmer winds and less rain brought bigger fish up river for Thursday, Friday, Saturday but not Sunday as the fish rested that day. Bait was herring dropping back but warm on Sunday. it got so warm we will be looking for the sand eels as bait in the coming weeks. Finicky fish all three days as the bass had all the bait they could eat and there heads where down pushing bait out of the marsh

Video Interview With June 2013 Goetemann Artist in Residence : Allison Hornak

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Allison Hornak speaks about her Goeteman Residency On Rocky Neck. Check out her website to learn more about her work and her vision

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Painting and building are my practice.  I have devotion toward material, and I am as devoted to aerosol paints as I am to mud.  All material is flesh and connotes promiscuously within society and nature.  Then there is the problem of the impulse to order.  As an artist I need to still stuff.  Each piece acts as a halt—a submission, as a person, to the need to resist chaos.  What chaos?  Every artwork, every mark: a deceleration.  Every one a breaking.  Since, still, at the end of the day, at a turn, rupture is in the lull.  This is my protest.  I (am) matter too.

 

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A Night at the Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport

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Fred Bodin submits-

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This is the view of Old Harbor from the top floor event/intermission area. One can go up there to eat and sip a glass of wine before the concert and during the intermission.

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Here’s the view from our seats, and a wonderful performance by the Rockport High School Madrigal Choir. Seated nearby was Fr. Matthew Green, who has charmed us at holiday events singing Gregorian Chants. Rockport Music – Rockport, Massachusetts