Outdoors: Our brooks and native trout still need the rain

As expected, the powerful tropical storm Isaias swept north, bringing with it numerous fancy tropical birds.Among the confounded unintentional travelers were sooty terns — more at home in the Dry Tortugas and the Yucatan — that ended up at Lake Pontoosuc near Pittsfield, Horseneck Beach in Westport and Wachusett Reservoir in Clinton. Accompanying them in the heavy winds were a brown noddy — a common Bahamas resident — and a long-tailed […]