A great blue heron preened itself while a couple of turtles watched its every move on Jamaica Pond this afternoon (even more turtles watched from the other side on what is normally the pond's turtle log).
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By adamg - 9/4/21 - 7:06 pm
Greg Cook kayaked through Rumney Marsh in Saugus yesterday and watched thousands of swallows murmurating. He also spotted fiddler crabs. Lots and lots of fiddler crabs.
By adamg - 9/3/21 - 12:04 pm
Yesterday, roving UHub photographer Dan Peters spied this comfy coyote up a hill at the part of the Arnold Arboretum in Roslindale that's across Walter Street from the main part of the Arbs, where the solar panels are.
By adamg - 8/30/21 - 8:25 am
Mary Ellen spotted this eagle at Millennium Park in West Roxbury early this morning.
By adamg - 8/28/21 - 4:14 pm
Possinger's before and after shots.
Chris Possinger reports:
Watching my kid at the playground at Boynton and Hall St. in JP and heard a munching sound. Looked over and it was a squirrel munching on a large vertebrae. Called the Staties just in case, but I don't think it's human.
By adamg - 8/17/21 - 11:38 am
Watertown News reports the attack. which left another dog injured, happened in the area of Walnut Street on Friday night.
By adamg - 8/9/21 - 10:46 pm
A pair of ducks taking a break this afternoon along the shores of Jamaica Pond, which more and more is looking like a giant pot of pea soup as the blue-but-so-far-mostly-green algae keep the pond closed to fishing, boating and dog swimming.
By adamg - 8/9/21 - 9:34 am
Mary Ellen spotted this juvenile yellow-crowned night heron in the Back Bay Fens, amazingly serene given what's going on right behind it: Read more.
By adamg - 8/8/21 - 1:25 pm
The New England Aquarium reports its divers rescued an ocean sunfish, also known as a mola mola and, at least in the Boston area, as a baby wheel, Jay, that had gotten trapped behind a construction barrier along the East Boston shore: Read more.
By adamg - 8/4/21 - 10:47 am
Mary Ellen reports she was looking down at a pond in Allandale Woods on the West Roxbury/JP line the other day when she spotted a water snake. And then it started swimming towards her, probably because it spotted something tasty that wasn't her, but still, she jumped.
By adamg - 8/2/21 - 10:57 am
Hopeful Emily reports this antlered-up deer visited a VFW Parkway back yard - just across from Allandale Woods - last evening. And now you know why a Boston parkway has Deer Crossing signs.
By adamg - 7/24/21 - 9:22 pm
Taking a break - homebuilding is hard work.
Mary Ellen journeyed way up to Winthrop today to see if she could get a gander at the monk parakeets that seems to have taken up housekeeping there - to the point of building a large nest on a utility pole at Winthrop Beach, across from the Five Sisters. She reports they weren't hard to find. Read more.
By adamg - 7/23/21 - 12:55 pm
Ama Wild has been getting up early to video the raccoons of Kendall Square, including this one, who seems to have taken up residence in a wall: Read more.
By adamg - 7/19/21 - 10:22 pm
This snake was hanging out this afternoon in Millennium Park in West Roxbury, near where Sawmill Brook enters the Charles.
By adamg - 7/18/21 - 7:32 pm
Mary Ellen spotted this odd couple - a turtle and a green heron - at Millennium Park in West Roxbury today.
By adamg - 7/17/21 - 5:04 pm
So, as Vostradamus asks, how did one (granted, very dead) wind up on the shore of Jamaica Pond?
By adamg - 7/15/21 - 10:19 am
Update, 8/26: It's safe to put the feeders back up.
The state Division of Fisheries and Wildlife is urging people to take down their bird feeders - and stow away their bird baths - because of a mystery illness that is killing birds across the eastern US that might spread where birds congregate. Read more.
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