wildlife

Re-striping

adamg — Mon, 21 May 2012 16:22:22 +0000

Tim Mouradian provides proof the stripers are back at Plum Island.

Copyright Tim Mouradian. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

Geese playing chicken

adamg — Sat, 12 May 2012 15:37:35 +0000

Some geese were just hanging out this morning on the train track on the Cambridge side of the BU Bridge.

Oh, dear: Dozen ducklings drop down drain

adamg — Thu, 03 May 2012 12:31:41 +0000

Fortunately, there was a happy ending. Kristin MacDougall at the MWRA reports a woman walking her dog at Deer Island called the MWRA when she noticed mama and poppa duck quacking for help at a storm drain yesterday.

Winthrop Animal Control responded, fished the ducklings out with a net, and then, as the parents followed anxiously behind, walked the babies down to the harbor, where the family was reunited and paddled off.

Would chianti go with roadrunner?

adamg — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:20:40 +0000

NorthEndWaterfront.com posts a photo of a coyote spotted on Copp's Hill Terrace in the North End this morning.

It's not the first North End coyote spotting, but they remain relatively rare, unlike in, say, West Roxbury.

Quincy smelt

adamg — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:04:20 +0000

The Neponset River Watershed Association tweets that smelt were spotted yesterday in Quincy's Gulliver Creek, heading up the Neponset on their annual spawning run. Like the alewife, the smelt are anadromous, which means they live in the ocean but return to fresh water to spawn.

Little baby seal on the beach in Gloucester

adamg — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:59:16 +0000

Surrounded by police tape to keep the curious away.

Good gravy: Turkey in Harvard Square

adamg — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:18:25 +0000

Don't you just want to gobble her up?

Dan K. stumbled upon a turkey with places to go on Eliot Street this morning.

Turkey in the tree in the South End

adamg — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 21:56:56 +0000

Turkey in the tree.

John McLachlan reports this tree turkey whiles away the evenings in a neighbor's yard off Milford Street in the South End.

Copyright John McLachlan. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

Poor thing in the Financial District

adamg — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:14:04 +0000

Downtown wildlife.

Maggie O'Neil photographed this coyote on Summer Street today.

The Animal Rescue League reports it captured the coyote in Chinatown, after a chase that included a brief foray through the mouth of the Ted Williams Tunnel. The League adds:

We are working with Mass Fish and Wildlife on a release site outside the city limits. No ACME products used on this rescue.

Warm weather brings out the peepers

adamg — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:46:11 +0000

They're peeping away at the George Wright Golf Course and Stony Brook Reservation tonight.

Townie raccoon cause for concern

adamg — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:16:53 +0000

Ramblin' Rocky out in daylight.

Cara posted this photo yesterday afternoon of a raccoon out and about in the daylight in Charlestown. People immediately suggested she call Animal Control because normally the only raccoons venturing forth with the sun up are rabid.

Kristin MacDougall reports there was a raccoon waddling around the Navy Yard around 11 a.m. yesterday.

If it's the same one, s/he walked a long way uphill.

Tough roe to hoe: Sturgeon spotted in Charles

adamg — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:16:27 +0000

The Globe reports a rare sturgeon's been spotted swimming up the Charles.

Hawk gets tangled up in fishing line in JP, breaks wing

adamg — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 21:25:38 +0000

The Animal Rescue League posts a photo of the poor hawk, found in a backyard near the Arboretum today.

Deer becomes roadkill in West Roxbury

adamg — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:31:17 +0000

Boston Police report a deer jumped in front of a startled motorist around 8:30 p.m. yesterday, causing a two-car crash - and its own demise - on Baker Street near the cemeteries.

On arrival, officers observed two cars, one that appeared to have rear-ended the other, and a deceased deer in the roadway. Officers spoke to the operator of the first car who stated that she was driving along Baker Street when the deer came out of nowhere and jumped in front of her motor vehicle. According to the operator, she was unable to avoid the animal.

Police say a driver behind the first car was unable to stop in time and hit the back of the first car. Both cars, however, were able to leave the scene under their own power, unlike the deer.

In December, another deer met its demise in front of Faulkner Hospital in Jamaica Plain, when it collided with a Boston Police cruiser.

You'd have to be nuts to pass up a slice from one of Allston's many fine pizza places

adamg — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:28:24 +0000

Brad Searles noticed this little guy chowing down on some of Allston's finest the other day.

Posted under this Creative Commons license and in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.