Adam Castiglioni spotted this turkey inside the Government Center T station this afternoon.
H/t Ruth Zakarin.
Adam Castiglioni spotted this turkey inside the Government Center T station this afternoon.
H/t Ruth Zakarin.
Patrick McMahon spotted the turkey wandering around Downtown Crossing this morning.
K spotted a rough looking coyote on the Commonwealth Avenue side of the Boston College campus today.
WriteHandMan spotted these turkeys outside the KFC on Washington Street in Codman Square.
BostonTimelapse was out for a run in Moakley Park this morning when he - and others - spotted a coyote obviously already sick of all the attention.
Jon Latino reports turkeys have made their way to Hanover Street - in this case barely a block from Commercial.
Eileen Murphy decorated a mum plant for Halloween with "spider web fluff" and a fake spider. But then a poor bee got tangled. She reports:
Needed sewing machine tweezers, decoupage scissors & most tiny crochet hook to remove all the fluff from very angry bee. No more fluff from me.
There were a couple of coots (no clue if they were old coots) at Jamaica Pond today, with their pigeon-like way of moving around the water: Their heads bobbing back and forth as they moved.
You can tell that's what Sara Mak's dog was thinking this morning on a walk on Washington Street.
Andrew spotted the bird on Kingston Street: Read more.
Late this afternoon at Chez Turtle, where all the turtles at Jamaica Pond seem to hang.
OK, it's a great blue heron just all scrunched up. Later, he flew from one end of the pond to the other and seemed to have both legs and a neck.
Mary Ellen spotted a pair of bald eagles over Rivermoor Street in West Roxbury today. This one was much larger, so was probably the female, she says.
At Millennium Park in West Roxbury yesterday, Mary Ellen spotted this squirrel who just wanted to be left alone.
Some guy who just moved to Boston (to go to BC, from the looks of things), is freaked out by all the turkeys in Boston.
Ed. note: Tonight, I opened our side door to throw out some trash and there was an oppssum just sitting there, all "don't kill me!"
Cambridge Day introduces us to Asian jumping worms, which are really more like Asian wriggling worms, but in any case are worse for the local flora than all the other earthworms that came over with Europeans. You can recognize them by the white band around them and by the way they wriggle intensely when prodded.
Robert Orthman of Roslindale was about to let his two dogs go out for some air when he looked outside this afternoon.
Mary Ellen spotted a hummingbird topping off today in Newton's Nahantan Park before the long migration south for the winter.
Bostonscigirl wonders:
What is the etiquette? Can I just start driving?
Wicked Local Cambridge reports Cambridge wants to hire a "rat liaison," not to negotiate terms of surrender with Remy and Ben to serve as a sort of rat czar to deal with growing numbers of rar complaints from residents, only you can't call the person a czar in the People's Republic.
Earlier:
Newton residents come to grim realization that their garden city has rats.