nature

Hawk! Who goes there?

tblade — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:29:05 +0000

Of all the branches in all the trees in all of Dorchester, this hawk (red tail?) landed on the branch next to my window, prey in tow, for a lunch break.

It was a fascinating sight for which I am thankful to have witnessed. But if any Dorchester-area hawks read Universal Hub, a small request: I am happy to host you for lunch, just please clear your place. Staring at a red clump of leftover bird ruins my view (Iâ€™ll take graffiti any day!)

Outdoor Women's Group Launching in Boston!

SoylentQueen — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 21:34:59 +0000

Women Outdoors, Inc.
55 Talbot Avenue
Medford, MA 02155
www.women-outdoors.org
Email: ,
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Aug. 24, 2006
To: Press
Contact: Lisa Vaas, 617-477-9779

Women Outdoors is coming (back!) to the Greater Boston Region
Women Outdoors, a non-profit organization dedicated to promote wilderness activities and competency in the out-of-doors, is excited to announce the re-establishment of a chapter in the Greater Boston area. Founded in 1980, Women Outdoors provides women with a structure for a national network of women who work and play in the outdoors, and encourages women to develop an integrated, environmentally conscious lifestyle and to support policies that preserve the earthâ€™s natural resources and promote a strong environmental ethic.

Birds along the Mystic River

adamg — Mon, 16 May 2005 16:07:03 +0000

The Urban Pantheist had a good day along the Mystic - he spotted six bird species he'd never seen before (and posts photos). But first he had to get there from the Wellington T stop:

... The area around Wellington station is a hellish sprawl of highways, office parks, construction and more highways. No one walks to or from there: you park there and take the subway into Boston, or you catch a bus from there to somewhere else. I left the station and tried to figure out my way to the river--even though I lead nature walks, I don't have a great sense of direction. I cut through a parking lot to a weedy, trash-strewn earthen ridge. ...

The beautiful, stinky trees of Cambridge

adamg — Wed, 04 May 2005 18:41:16 +0000

Laura ponders Bradford pear trees, which, soothingly line the streets of Cambridge, but which also tend to die off fairly easily and stink up the joint after they flower:

.. the trees tend to self-destruct. Not as in, "KABOOM" - as in, if they are not pruned as they grow, their tightly-crowded branches push away from the too-narrow, thinly-barked trunk, opening their thumbprint shape into more of a round baby toenail stunted with fungus, leaving them susceptible to wind damage in the warmer months and ice damage in the colder months.