Several coots have made their late-fall arrival at Jamaica Pond - looking like ducks in the water, and sort of chickens on land, except for their feet, which look like, well, nothing you'd expect.
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Jamaica Pond
By adamg - 11/5/18 - 3:56 pm
There were some trees around Jamaica Pond today that didn't need much sun to show off their fall colors. Read more.
By adamg - 9/21/18 - 10:49 pm
Along the path around Jamaica Pond, near where Parkman Drive and the Arborway meet in that rotary is a tree stump. There are several clumps of toadstools, the largest of which had dozens and dozens of them, all tightly clustered as if trying to huddle for warmth. And then there is this large, almost flowering, single fungus. Read more.
By adamg - 9/17/18 - 8:51 pm
This female American wigeon decided to hang with all the mallards on the north side of Jamaica Pond this afternoon, but acting a bit more skittish than her larger ducky friends. At one point, a bunch of them took off all of a sudden and she departed with them - before they all splashed down again about halfway down the pond.
By adamg - 9/16/18 - 6:43 pm
Mark MacGilchrist spotted a bald eagle in a tree on Moss Hill, near Jamaica Pond today. A bald eagle had frequented the pond area this past spring. In July, an eagle surveyed the scene from a tree in West Roxbury.
By adamg - 9/14/18 - 6:17 pm
To go along with the Fog x FLO display at Jamaica Pond today, Mattia C. Mauree and Pampi put on a performance every half hour while the fog was fogging. They didn't have much time for any of the performances - the fog only comes on for about two minutes.
By adamg - 8/22/18 - 4:55 pm
Paula Tennyson watched the rain come down over Kenmore Square and the Fenway around 4 p.m.
Down at Jamaica Pond, this ominous cloud approached quickly - about five minutes after the shot below, a torrential downpour began: Read more.
By adamg - 8/15/18 - 10:36 pm
There was a piper of some sort flitting around the north shore of Jamaica Pond this afternoon.
By adamg - 7/22/18 - 6:40 pm
A mama wood duck watched over her brood as they turned in for the night on a log at the north end of Jamaica Pond late this afternoon. Read more.
By adamg - 7/12/18 - 6:52 pm
Over the past few days, three herons have taken up residence at Jamaica Pond, along with the ducks and the geese. They'll stand for awhile along the shores, or perch on the branches of the tree on the island, and then something will catch their eye and they'll take off and fly over to another part of the pond.
By adamg - 7/10/18 - 12:07 am
A flock of blue damselflies were hanging out on the shore of Jamaica Pond, on the Parkman Drive side, near the Arborway.
By adamg - 5/17/18 - 5:30 pm
Late yesterday afternoon, this hawk sat in a tree on the Jamaica Pond shore along Parkman Drive. Oh, look, it has some dinner. After about 30 seconds of me taking its photo, it had enough and flew off, with dinner, right in front of a runner on the path.
By adamg - 5/10/18 - 10:21 am
The Emerald Necklace Conservancy shows us a typical Jamaica Pond scene in 1910.
As Ben Evans notes:
Feeding small children to swans was outlawed in 1923.
By adamg - 5/9/18 - 7:53 pm
Roving UHub photographer Kirsten Morgan enjoyed the foggy sunset at Jamaica Pond this evening.
By adamg - 4/11/18 - 4:17 pm
Steve Garfield's started fixing a wall at the gazebo at the Jamaica Pond boathouse and hopes the community joins in to finish the work.
Compare to Nate Swain's Lego wall on Congress Street back in 2015.
By adamg - 3/29/18 - 4:26 pm
Before the clouds completely took over the sky this afternoon, a turtle sunned itself on the usual turtle perch on one of the fallen tree branches near the northern end of Jamaica Pond.
By adamg - 3/20/18 - 11:08 pm
Erik Pettaway reports he was walking his dogs around Jamaica Pond on Jan. 30, near where Perkins Street and Francis Parkman Drive intersect, when: Read more.
By adamg - 2/25/18 - 12:05 pm
There are three swans at the pond these days - a couple and a third wheel. Yesterday afternoon, all converged on the small island at the northern end of the pond, but the couple was not in a sharing mood - one of them broke off and drove away the third swan, which decided the middle of the pond wasn't so bad after all.
By adamg - 1/29/18 - 10:23 am
Jonathan Tompkins got a view of Boston firefighters practicing ice rescues at the north end of Jamaica Pond this morning. Despite the warming temperatures of recent days, the ice still held for them - and they had to cut some holes in the ice to practice their rescue techniques.
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