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By adamg - 9/9/23 - 1:52 pm

Mary Ellen spotted this American Copper - a tiny, little butterfly, she reports - in West Roxbury the other day.

By adamg - 9/6/23 - 2:34 pm

Dave Wattles, MassWildlife's black-bear and furbearer biologist, will lead an online discussion on coyotes in Boston - how they got here, how they live and how the more bipedal among us can coexist with them, starting at 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 19. Free registration required.

By adamg - 8/19/23 - 8:40 pm
White weasel in Franklin Park, possibly rabid

Possible weasel of Caerbannog, with a vicious streak a mile wide, on a Franklin Park path.

A concerned citizen filed a 311 complaint about a white weasel with no fear on the Forest Hills Street side of Franklin Park this evening: Read more.

By adamg - 8/18/23 - 1:28 pm

Boston Animal Care and Control reports five rabid raccoons have been recovered of late in Boston - most recently on Mission Hill: Read more.

By adamg - 8/17/23 - 8:58 am
Golden sunrise over the South End

"Pure magnificance!" Brooks Payne marvels.

By adamg - 8/12/23 - 2:17 pm

Cambridge Day hops onto the story of American toads, which can eat 10,000 insects apiece in the summer and which, after shedding their skin, eat it.

By adamg - 7/29/23 - 10:03 am
Turkey and firetruck on Brighton Avenue in Allston

Teddy Kokoros watched this turkey who had obviously gotten up early to get some boba on Brighton Avenue near Harvard Avenue in Allston this morning. Read more.

By adamg - 7/28/23 - 11:36 am

A frantic citizen files a 311 complaint about the unstoppable rats swarming Commonwealth and Chestnut Hill avenues: Read more.

By adamg - 7/27/23 - 12:29 pm
Young seagull with a red cup in the Seaport

Steve Klise spotted this young seagull at a Northern Avenue parking garage about to take a snort in disgust at the attempt to ban him from Castle Island.

By adamg - 7/26/23 - 7:59 am

NBC Boston reports Castle Island gulls are flying amok this summer:

Like a scene right out of "The Birds," customers are dropping their boxes of food and running from the scene screaming.

By adamg - 7/23/23 - 1:37 pm
Berries on the shore of the Charles River

There are plenty of big things to see on a walk on the path along the Charles River at Millennium Park in West Roxbury: Big trees, big sky and a wide river (now that rainfall is back to normal). But look carefully and there are all sorts of interesting little things to see as well. Read more.

By adamg - 7/18/23 - 8:59 pm
Night heron at Lovejoy Wharf

Rachel Dolores was along the locks near Lovejoy Wharf Sunday night when she suddenly had to do a double take: Read more.

By adamg - 7/6/23 - 9:56 am
Catbird with a berry

Mary Ellen's been watching the birds chow down on berries along the Charles River in West Roxbury the past couple of days, such as this catbird.

A cedar waxwing also eats up: Read more.

By adamg - 6/30/23 - 10:22 pm

A fed-up citizen files a 311 complaint about unleashed curs in the Public Garden: Read more.

By adamg - 6/27/23 - 8:11 am

WBZ reports the woman felt compelled to resort to her purse after the birds took up position on either side of her and then started following her.

By adamg - 6/25/23 - 11:46 am
American bullfrog at Millennium Park

Mary Ellen spotted an American bullfrog at Millennium Park in West Roxbury today - from the eyes up, at any rate.

By adamg - 6/25/23 - 11:41 am
Baby wood ducks growing up fast

This time of year, the mallards are usually the main duck species at Jamaica Pond, but this June the wood ducks are giving them a run for their money - instead of the normal one mother wood duck and her brood, there are two, maybe three other families paddling around the pond.

By adamg - 6/23/23 - 2:05 pm

Bounding buck

Mary Ellen watched a buck bounding at Millennium Park in West Roxbury this morning. She apologizes for the non-deer jumpiness of the video, says it was tough to hold both the camera and the leash for Dolly the wonder dog.

By adamg - 6/21/23 - 11:10 am
Muskrat grabbing some lunch along the Charles River

Mary Ellen captured this muskrat (or some other rodenty critter) chowing down along the Charles River in West Roxbury the other day.

By adamg - 6/20/23 - 4:44 pm

A South Boston citizen files a 311 complaint about furry things scurrying about the area of L and East 6th streets that are the size of bunnies but aren't bunnies: Read more.

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