birds

Birds she has heard

adamg — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 18:05:32 +0000

Shaw Pong posts audio from her recent recordings of birds in Jamaica Plain, from the Arboretum to Franklin Park.

Do you know what attracts these birds? No, but hum a few bars ...

adamg — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 17:01:16 +0000

B. MacLean photographed a hummingbird at one of the feeders in his backyard near the Blue Hills Reservation.

Copyright B. MacLean. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

Citizen complaint of the day: Crazed bird dive-bombing Harborwalk visitors in the North End

adamg — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 12:40:33 +0000

Attack bird lurks, awaits next victim.

From Citizens Connect:

A very aggressive bird (bluejay maybe) attacks anything, human or dog, that comes through this part of the Harborwalk between 40 Battery and Union Wharf. Can animal control do something about it?

A goldfinch sings

adamg — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:39:47 +0000

Shaw Pong Liu records and describes a goldfinch singing near Bussey Brook in the Arnold Arboretum.

Watching the food chain in action

adamg — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:37:15 +0000

John Halamka reports all the extra bird food he's put out and the heated bird bath have attracted plenty of birds to his Wellesley backyard this winter - and not just of the birdseed-eating variety:

I looked up and saw a cardinal eating safflower. I looked up again and saw a Red-Shouldered hawk eating the cardinal.

A flashy coat only gets you so far

adamg — Tue, 18 May 2010 13:36:04 +0000

Steve Borichevsky photographs a male Baltimore oriole putting the moves on a female - without success.

Poisoning ravens in the park

adamg — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:50:33 +0000

Channel 5 reports the National Park Service is telling ravens on the Cape: Nevermore. Workers will build fake piping-plover nests in the Cape Cod National Seashore and fill them with hard-boiled chicken eggs laced with crowicide to kill the birds going after endangered plovers.

At this rate, I should probably get a bird book

adamg — Sat, 30 May 2009 23:50:28 +0000

We went to Echo Bridge in Newton today, and it really is amazing - you can basically whisper and hear your voice echo back from the other side of the Charles (so you can imagine what it was like when an exuberant kidlet decided to yell). Up river, near the old mill, we spotted the above large bird (so for those of you who know the distance, yes, it pays to have a zoom lens). Anybody know what it is?

I'm assuming its proper name is not Whatchamacallit Bird

adamg — Mon, 25 May 2009 14:56:29 +0000

As yesterday afternoon's storm wound down, I drove up to the top of Millennium Park in West Roxbury, figuring there might be a rainbow. There was! Split in two, with one end landing just left of the high school and the other end between the VA hospital and the Great Blue Hill. Alas, it was just a little too faint for my camera to do justice, so no photos, but I did take some shots of this twittering bird, which seemed to be enjoying the wet road. Anybody know what it is?

Sad little bird

adamg — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:51:28 +0000

Steve: The only goldfinch to show up in our yard this year is the one that died on the front steps overnight.

Cardinal in mid-flight

adamg — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 02:54:15 +0000

Cool photo of a female cardinal in mid-flight at Belle Isle Marsh.

A cardinal rule

adamg — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:59:51 +0000

Jody, who took the above photo today, reports that that rule is: If you see a bird like this on a day like today, by the time you run upstairs to get your camera with the zoom lens, it will have flown away. She also has a request for her readers for when summer rolls along.

A wrenching video

adamg — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 22:07:18 +0000

Peter Oehlkers videos the wren that got into his house yesterday when somebody (he's not naming names) left the basement door open.

Crazed birds attack Somerville

adamg — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:08:32 +0000

Mockingbirds dive bomb pedestrians in Powerderhouse Square:

... i have been attacked twice this week when passing through the walkway area in the center of the rotary (nearest the funeral home) by a crazed bird, and i also witnessed a bird attack a dog over by the bus shelter by broadway. ...

First woodpecker of the season

adamg — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:04:50 +0000

Spotted this morning at the edge of the marsh between the West Roxbury Education Complex and the VFW Parkway.