Samuel Maskell watched a flotilla of geese floating along in the Esplanade lagoon.
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By adamg - 6/6/22 - 10:01 am
Ladybugs Leaf spotted the Esplanade's latest visitor today.
Patrick Roath saw him in the Fens yesterday: Read more.
By adamg - 6/20/21 - 12:53 pm
A roving UHub photographer snapped this family portrait of Atticus the Swan - whose partner died not long after their babies were hatched - and his not-so-little cygnets out for a paddle at the Esplanade this morning.
By adamg - 6/1/21 - 3:23 pm
The Esplanade Association reports she died last night, and that a Boston animal-control officer was able to remove her body "while the father swan sat at the nest with their cygnets tucked under his wings."
Paddy G reports the two were forced to raise their young amidst man-made filth along the riverbank.
By adamg - 4/29/21 - 9:11 am
Who would have thought an eagle would land right on the Esplanade? Paul Kafasis spotted the bird there this morning.
By adamg - 4/19/21 - 10:26 am
Restoration won't include removing the highways, though. 1886 view of the proposed Charles River parks from BPL Leventhal Map Center.
DCR is aiming for a fall start of a pilot program to test various methods for restoring the banks of the Charles River Basin and reducing the amount of invasive trees and other plants along the banks that it says crowd out native species and reduce the vistas of the scenic waterway. Read more.
By adamg - 10/3/20 - 6:18 pm
Liz the roving UHub photographer came upon a white duck having a grand old time hanging with a gaggle of geese on the Esplanade this afternoon.
By adamg - 7/10/20 - 7:52 pm
Aegon Targaryen VI spotted this rainbow this afternoon:
Rainbow over back bay, ending over the hatchshell. Brb, getting that gold.
By adamg - 4/8/20 - 3:21 pm
Peter Wilson reports the Boston Pops have cancelled their spring season and that they're still considering whether to perform on July 4th at the Hatch Shell and this summer in Tanglewood.
By adamg - 9/9/19 - 10:27 am
WFNX got Snapple to sponsor the concert - and they gave out thousands of bottles of juice. Glass bottles. As one reporter concluded: "Small mobs of punk rock fans roaming Boston's Back Bay looking for action."
H/t Chris Devers.
By adamg - 8/31/19 - 10:40 pm
Leslee spotted an unusual photo shoot in the Esplanade lagoon today; wonders what the story was.
Posted under this Creative Commons license and in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
By adamg - 7/1/19 - 9:16 am
Updated.
A Boston Municipal Court judge today ordered Luis Olivo, 37, sent to Bridgewater State Hospital for evaluation before he is arraigned for allegedly stabbing and beating a woman on the Esplanade Friday afternoon, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 5/27/19 - 3:19 pm
Catboston sported the Bruins' biggest (headed) fan on the Esplanade today.
Earlier:
Fiedler likes the Red Sox, too.
By adamg - 4/14/19 - 10:55 pm
Roving UHub photographer Amanda Wild came across somebody taking it easy on the Esplanade today.
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