The annual Big Day Boston bird watch in Boston Proper on Saturday ended with 66 species of birds spotted from the Public Garden to Boston Harbor, including one bald eagle competing with Hitchcockian numbers of gulls to gulp down some herring.

Update: Meet Rich Shertenlieb.

Boston Radio Watch reports the on-air demise of Heather Ford, Pete McKenzie and Kenny Young. WZLX will supposedly be announcing replacements later today.

A Suffolk Superior Court judge last week concluded Patrick Mendoza, charged with trying to plug somebody on Hanover Street, was no longer an immediate threat to society and so could be released from jail to modified home release while awaiting trial - he is allowed to leave home for work or for medical or legal appointments.

As first reported by NorthEnd.page, Suffolk Superior Court Judge Christopher Belezos also ordered Mendoza to post $10,000 cash bail. The judge also required Mendoza, a North End resident, to wear a GPS monitor 24 hours a day, undergo weekly drug tests and stay off of Hanover Street between Cross and Fleet streets.

Mendoza is charged with shooting at a man with whom he had long feuded outside Modern Pastry, located almost midway between Cross and Fleet, around 11 p.m. on July 12. He missed the man, who ducked behind a car before running away, but hit the bakery, police say.

Mendoza then allegedly pedaled away on his bicycle. Police found and arrested him about a week later at a Cape Cod substance-abuse center.

Mendoza formally faces charges of armed assault with intent to murder, attempted assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, two counts of illegal possession of a firearm and illegal possession of ammunition. No trial date has been set; he returns to court June 11 for a pre-trial conference, court records show.

Mendoza was the owner of Monica's Trattoria on Prince Street. After the shooting, the Boston Licensing Board ordered the restaurant shut, because it no longer had a manager on site. The board let it re-open after Mendoza transferred ownership to his wife and son and they hired a new manager. Mendoza's two brothers, who also own Monica's restaurants in the North End, helped re-open the restaurant.

Innocent, etc.

A concerned citizen filed a 311 report yesterday about all the dead fish on the rocks by the North Washington Street bridge and the Eliot School in the North End.

The appropriately named Kilgore Trout suggests they're the remains of the spring herring run up the Mystic River, although given the location of the fish, near the Charles River dam, we're going to suggest they were part of the spring herring run up the Charles River, which itself is large enough to bring in seafood connoisseurs from time to time.

Further proof of them being part of the Charles River run: Photos of them in the Charles River Dam locks.

Regardless of river, the two types of herring we get - one called Alewife, as in the brook some head towards - are anadromous, which means they live most of their lives in the ocean, but head to fresh-water rivers to breed..