A great blue heron took flight over the Charles River near Millennium Park this morning, and Mary Ellen was there to watch it.
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Charles River
By adamg - 1/14/21 - 10:05 am
Mary Ellen shows us one of the two bald eagles she watched hanging out yesterday in the trees along the Charles River's Cow Island Pond, off Rivermoor Street in West Roxbury. Could the couple be searching for starter nest for a new family?
By adamg - 1/10/21 - 9:32 pm
For a couple of minutes at sunset this evening, the surface of the Charles River between Millennium Park in Boston and the Needham Line and Cutler Park in Dedham was very still. Read more.
By adamg - 12/8/20 - 9:09 am
Mary Ellen spotted this peregrine falcon yesterday, hanging out overlooking Cow Island Pond, a sort of Charles River bay off Rivermoor Street in West Roxbury.
By adamg - 11/29/20 - 8:03 pm
Mary Ellen spotted a flotilla of swans today in Cow Island Pond, the lake-like part of the Charles River off Rivermoor Street in West Roxbury.
By adamg - 11/19/20 - 9:45 pm
Mary Ellen reports a recent major burst of bird activity, or irruption, along the Charles River at Millennium Park as herds of birds, such as these redpolls, along with winter finches, evening grosbeaks and red crossbills from up north head south in search of food.
It’s really a sight to see at dusk at MP red-wing blackbirds and cowbirds also join in. Surely where Whoever wrote The Birds got their inspiration.
By adamg - 11/5/20 - 11:04 am
A few months ago, somebody hauled a dining-room chair to a quiet, hidden spot on the Charles River in Millennium Park in West Roxbury, where people who stumbled across it would spend some time taking in the vista. Emily the roving UHub photographer came upon the chair a couple days ago and found it's no longer usable. Read more.
By adamg - 10/31/20 - 12:08 pm
Ethan McCoy went for a walk along the Charles River in Cambridge during the snow yesterday.
By adamg - 10/3/20 - 6:18 pm
Liz the roving UHub photographer came upon a white duck having a grand old time hanging with a gaggle of geese on the Esplanade this afternoon.
By adamg - 10/1/20 - 10:15 am
Mary Ellen watched a pair of coyotes cross the drought-lowered Charles River from Cutler Park on the Dedham/Needham line over to Millennium Park in West Roxbury this morning.
By adamg - 9/18/20 - 1:19 pm
The other day, Samuel Watson was kayaking on the Charles River, about a half mile down from Millennium Park in West Roxbury, when he spotted this coyote.
By adamg - 9/14/20 - 4:59 pm
Somebody brought a chair down to the banks of the Charles River in Millennium Park in West Roxbury and then left it there.
I used it this afternoon to watch a great blue heron on the Dedham side of the river - wanted to be ready should it just stop standing there and fly. It finally did - all of 20 feet upriver, where it then proceeded to just stand there again. Read more.
By adamg - 8/25/20 - 10:17 am
On her morning walks through Millennium Park in West Roxbury, Mary Ellen usually looks for birds and other interesting creatures, but of late, she's noticed that somebody's been digging up manmade stuff from the mud along the Charles River edge of what was the Gardner Street Landfill until the 1990s. Read more.
By adamg - 8/12/20 - 4:38 pm
A disgusted citizen files a 311 complaint about conditions in the Nashua Street Park, which runs along the Charles River behind Nashua Street: Read more.
By adamg - 8/9/20 - 12:38 pm
Mary Ellen spotted this semipalmated plover, looking like it wanted to be left alone as it gets ready for its daily ablutions in the Charles River at Millennium Park in West Roxbury yesterday.
By adamg - 8/7/20 - 9:07 am
Mary Ellen captured a deer family wading into the low waters of the Charles River between Millennium and Cutler parks this morning.
By adamg - 7/20/20 - 12:31 pm
Mary Ellen continues her exploration of bird life along the Charles River and Sawmill Brook at Millennium Park in West Roxbury. Yesterday, she spotted a pretzel bird, um, egret.
She also reports there's a family of peregrine falcons enjoying the towers along the road down to the canoe launch at the park: Read more.
By adamg - 7/20/20 - 9:54 am
The other day, Adam Castiglioni spotted a lot of dead fish floating in the Charles at the Museum of Science and wondered what's up with that. Read more.
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