It was so warm that a couple people waded into Jamaica Pond - in swimsuits.
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Jamaica Pond
By adamg - 1/29/20 - 6:03 pm
Say, we don't get many black ducks at Jamaica Pond (and at these prices, we can see why, woo hoo!).
By adamg - 12/14/19 - 4:32 pm
While Dorchester Bay was rolling across Morrissey Boulevard, Jamaica Pond was disappearing into the fog, as a roving UHub photographer discovered this afternoon.
By adamg - 12/8/19 - 6:30 pm
Roving UHub photographer Mary Ellen spotted a pied-billed grebe at Jamaica Pond yesterday.
You can tell a grebe (you just can't tell it much) because they're a bit smaller and not as black as the coots that frequent the pond this time of year.
Also at Jamaica Pond today, Stephen Baird photographed a bald eagle soaring overhead.
By adamg - 10/20/19 - 10:25 pm
Rev. Laura Everett got a look at the newest Orange Line cars at the Jamaica Pond Lantern Parade this evening.
By adamg - 10/13/19 - 3:17 pm
This afternoon, this heron was quietly minding its own business on the Parkman Drive side of Jamaica Pond, slowly wading along the shore looking for a bite to eat, with that Groucho Marx gait herons have, when another heron landed on the water about 15 feet away. Read more.
By adamg - 10/7/19 - 2:32 pm
If the sailboats at Jamaica Pond were candlepins, the role of the ball today would be played by the wind, Travel New England reports.
By adamg - 9/28/19 - 1:49 pm
A Boston Parks and Recreation project around Jamaica Pond that has focused mainly on replacing the crumbling asphalt walkways that ring the park also includes work to improve the plantings there. Along the Parkman Drive and Perkins Street sides, workers have uprooted decades of weeds and put down new soil and, in several areas, grass seed. Read more.
By adamg - 8/15/19 - 8:00 pm
This turtle climbed up on the oversized bathtub drain at the northern end of Jamaica Pond this afternoon to get some sun, but then seemed to want to figure out if it could balance on it using just its shell.
By adamg - 8/3/19 - 3:40 pm
Some ducks shared their rocky resting spot with a pair of turtles in Jamaica Pond yesterday.
By adamg - 7/18/19 - 4:14 pm
One of the geese that frequents Jamaica Pond hit the salad bar this afternoon while one of the rolling Brookline eyesores that keeps winding up at the pond just sat nearby, taking up space.
By adamg - 7/1/19 - 7:57 pm
Boston firefighters swarmed the dock at Jamaica Pond around 7:15 p.m. on a report of at least one person possibly in the water. But firefighters who went out in a BFD boat reported around 7:45 p.m. they'd found nothing. Firefighters began packing up not long after. Read more.
By adamg - 6/22/19 - 3:54 pm
But the pickings were slim yesterday afternoon, so after a few minutes, he flew off to another part of the pond.
Earlier:
An afternoon snack at Jamaica Pond.
By adamg - 6/10/19 - 5:31 pm
For at least the third year in a row, a wood duck is raising a flotilla of wood ducklings at Jamaica Pond.
Last year:
Getting her ducks in a row.
By adamg - 5/15/19 - 5:26 pm
The heron stood mostly still at the water's edge along the Pinebank side of Jamaica Pond today, only its neck swiveling as it scanned the water. Then, suddenly, it went into a crouch, like a cat about to pounce, took a couple of steps to the left and speared the water, coming up with a quickly devoured canape. Read more.
By adamg - 5/2/19 - 11:35 am
Workers getting ready to lay down a new asphalt path along Jamaica Pond near the boathouse and gazebo have ripped up all the benches on one side of them, save for Matthew Hincman's prank-turned-art-installation. Remains of the other benches now sit in small stacks of wood slats along the path and a couple of collections of the metal supports: Read more.
By adamg - 1/29/19 - 9:49 am
Gary C. reports this car was originally parked when there were snowbanks along Perkins Street at Jamaica Pond - and hasn't moved since:
Move over buddy! Despite the snow banks having receded to the curb, this lone duck still sits in the middle of the bike lane at Jamaica Pond. The city has noticed and placed several tickets on his windshield.
By adamg - 1/6/19 - 1:51 pm
Jake watched Boston firefighters doing some training at Jamaica Pond today.
Last January, they used the pond for training as well, but it was cold enough they could practice ice rescues.
By adamg - 12/3/18 - 10:34 pm
Was walking around Jamaica Pond this afternoon, when I spotted this bird glide down to a perch on one of the trees on the Parkman Drive side.
Hawk? And should I finally figure out how to manually focus my camera lens because the auto-focus kept zeroing in on the branches in front of the bird? The answer to the latter question, of course, is: Yes.
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