Taking care of your garden in the fall, and differences between aggressive and invasive plants

The top local and regional news stories of the wekk.

Laela Sayigh is a senior research specialist in the biology department at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. She’s headed down to Sarasota, Fla., where she’s been studying dolphin communication with the same population of bottlenose dolphins for nearly 40 years.

The bar-tailed Godwit is a tall, long-billed sandpiper that has in recent years been crowned the champion long-distance migrant among, well, all animals, thanks to increasingly small satellite tracking devices.

I went in the water yesterday, a little slower than the day before, slower still than July when it was hot, hot, hot. The water now is not. A stiff breeze made for an embarrassing race to my towel to dry off, if anyone was watching. No one was.

On this episode of The Garden Lady, C.L. speaks about fall rose care.

It's the news roundup where we discuss the stories making regional news this week.

I’m walking the back roads of Truro with my friend Nicole Cormier, who works as a dietician and is studying herbalism. We’re looking for something called Aronia which grows dark purple almost black berries.

Back on September 29, a boatload of birders clutching backpacks and sleeping bags headed out of Hyannis at dawn, bound for the continental shelf and its deep, warm water canyons some 130 miles to the south.

Time now for a Cape Cod Notebook. This week, Wellfleet journalist Seth Rolbein talks about the restoration of wetlands in Harwich.