Ed Grzyb went out into his Roslindale backyard this evening to see this scene:
Apparently this hawk wanted to grill the rat he caught tonight.
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By adamg - 7/5/15 - 6:34 pm
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By adamg - 3/12/15 - 4:29 pm
A concerned citizen reports rodents of unusual size in the fire swamp at Cambridge and Seattle streets in Allston:
Caller is reporting that there are rats the size of small dogs running around this area.
Up on Morris Street in East Boston, an equally concerned citizen with a rodent problem does not specify the size, but that's not what's concerning him or her:
By adamg - 7/8/14 - 11:52 am
A concerned citizen posts a photo of some uneven sidewalk bricks on Beacon Street across from the Common, says it's time for the city to spring for some rat poison, pronto:
Rats under side walk burrowing and causing sink holes.
By adamg - 2/7/14 - 8:43 am
A skeeved out citizen complains about the rats that have taken over Friend Street:
Rats! Lots of them. They get inside car engine compartments, drag garbage with them, eat through wires. We see them scurrying all over the place and see their paw prints in the snow around and under parked cars. There is a hole in wall of the Forecaster Building on the P&P-Parking-lot side where all sorts of rats go in and out.
By adamg - 10/23/13 - 7:22 am
Cambridge Day sounds the alarm.
"We have unleashed the fury," City Councilor Ken Reeves warns, in a story illustrated, of course, with a photo showing "the size of a dead Cambridge rat compared with an adult man’s foot."
Mike the Mad Biologist, who, as a Back Bay resident, knows something about rats, was amazed by what he saw in Central Square last night::
Saw one last night ~8pm scampering around in the open by City Hall. Big one too. Definitely could beat up Back Bay ones.
By adamg - 6/26/13 - 1:26 pm
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to approve what could be the first of ritzy new restaurants to go along with the fancy new apartments being built in Allston.
By adamg - 6/26/13 - 8:19 am
An actual wombat. Via Wikipedia, not Citizens Connect.
A concerned citizen grouses about rodents of unusual size on Washington Street:
Rats! Huge! Big as a Wombat!
Ed. note: Those would be some rats, since wombats can be as large as 77 lbs. Also: They are not reluctant to use their razor-sharp claws and "startled wombats can also charge humans and bowl them over, with the attendant risks of broken bones from the fall."
Citizen complaint of the day: Why isn't the city unleashing a squadron of wiener dogs to catch rats?
By adamg - 6/10/13 - 9:06 am
A hot-dog-loving citizen humblecomplains from Heldun Street in West Roxbury:
Our dachshund stuck her head under a plant near the sidewalk, found a rat and killed it!! Can inspectional services come by to make sure there isn't a bigger problem?
No need to click on the link, unless you want to see a picture of a dead rat (in surprisingly good condition, given the ferocity for which dachshunds are known).
By adamg - 10/21/12 - 9:40 am
A rat-averse citizen submits a photo of a pile of dead baby rats. He says he found all the rats in his car on Farrington Avenue (only click link if you wish to see a photo of a pile of dead baby rats):
There are so many. I have to kill them. They are nesting in my car. Someone needs to fix this so I don't have to keep murdering baby rats.
By adamg - 9/6/12 - 8:32 am
The Herald reports an explosion in the rat population on Savin Hill, possibly caused by construction along the Red Line.
By adamg - 9/4/12 - 11:16 pm
NorthEndWaterfront.com reports city officials say the North End's rat population seems to be down, thanks to a variety of efforts to keep the vermin out.
By adamg - 8/10/12 - 8:28 am
A disgusted citizen - no doubt hoping the city doesn't forget Allston in its newfound zeal to go after the rat warrens of the Fenway - posts a photo of a very dead, very flat rat in the middle of
By adamg - 3/24/12 - 8:47 am
No dead rats, please, in four languages (scroll past the girl with bunny ears).
Via the aptly named Allston Rat City.
By adamg - 3/22/12 - 8:23 am
Rattus norvegicus?
Man Man the Sox Fan captured a moment on the 66 bus a couple weeks back.
Copyright Man Man the Sox Fan. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
By adamg - 1/27/12 - 5:17 pm
Rat awaits exam at MSPCA-Angell.The MSPCA reports a Cape woman who bought two rats at a pet store to keep them from becoming snake snacks showed up at Angell Memorial in Jamaica Plain today with 69 more rats than she started out with.
The MSPCA reports all 71 rats are in good shape and that it is now looking for homes for them - so presumably that hipster lady with the Red Line snake need not apply.
By adamg - 1/17/12 - 8:23 am
Cambridge City Councilor Minka vanBeuzekom tweets this morning:
After light snow best time 2 see urban animal tracks - like rats. Do you have any?
By adamg - 10/23/11 - 5:08 pm
A concerned citizen reports rats are undermining the very brick sidewalks that help give Beacon Hill its charm, with a photo of their dirty work on Hancock Street:
Large hole in sidewalk. Made by rats. Very dangerous.
Ed. Question: Say, you don't think there's a warren of them living under the Big Dig, do you?
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