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By adamg - 2/11/24 - 1:52 pm
Dunlin at Castle Island

Mary Ellen took Dolly the dog up to Castle Island for a walk yesterday.

They spotted a plump dunlin, a flock of them and a female common eider (also purple sandpipers, which to the untrained eye look just like dunlins, only more gray than brown): Read more.

By adamg - 1/28/24 - 4:08 pm

WCVB reports on the body found near East India Row around 10:25 a.m. on Saturday.

By adamg - 1/22/24 - 4:47 pm

Nichole Davis gets the scoop: The be-tuxed bird spotted moving around the harbor wasn't a penguin but a thick-billed murre, a black-and-white Arctic bird that is not completely unheard of in these parts in the winter. So it also wasn't a heron.

By adamg - 1/13/24 - 5:33 pm
Rainbow over Uphams Corner

After the overnight torrents, we got another mini-torrent this afternoon, followed by a rainbow that water-weary Bostonians rushed out to see. Danny in Boston shows us the double rainbow over Uphams Corner in Dorchester. Read more.

By adamg - 1/13/24 - 1:11 pm
Flooding outside the New England Aquarium

This morning, Lisa Green walked from the North End to Rowes Wharf, where Boston Harbor was a lot closer than it usually is, like at the Aquarium, where the harbor consumed the harborwalk.

Kevin Whitely forwarded a friend's video of flooding on Commercial Wharf in the North End: Read more.

By adamg - 12/30/23 - 9:59 pm
Sunk boat is raised up in Boston Harbor

Eric Bender, who covers the waterfront, watched this morning, as a crane and crew resurrected the Armageddon, which sank at its berth at the Boston Harbor Marina in East Boston at some point.

By adamg - 12/30/23 - 1:43 pm
The tanker Nor'easter

Eric Bender watched three Boston tugs guide the tanker Nor'easter out of Chelsea Creek this morning. He reports: Read more.

By David Samuel Johnson - 12/30/23 - 10:19 am
Male fiddler crabs are small, with one oversized claw

Male fiddler crabs are small, with one oversized claw. Photo by David Samuel Johnson.

Nine years ago, I stood on the muddy banks of the Great Marsh, a salt marsh an hour north of Boston, and pulled a thumb-sized crab with an absurdly large claw out of a burrow. I was looking at a fiddler crab – a species that wasn't supposed to be north of Cape Cod, let alone north of Boston.

As it turned out, the marsh I was standing in would never be the same. I was witnessing climate change in action. Read more.

By adamg - 12/21/23 - 9:34 am

After protesters dumped the tea into the harbor 250 years ago, they tossed the chests it had been in into the harbor as well. J.L. Bell posts a copy of an account by Rev. Dr. John Prince of Salem, who watched the Tea Party and then returned to the wharf the next morning: Read more.

By adamg - 12/20/23 - 2:13 pm

WBUR interviews Sally Snowman, the last keeper at the country's first lighthouse, on her impending return to terra firma.

By adamg - 12/16/23 - 4:38 pm
A dip in the ocean at Winthrop

Mary Ellen took a break from observing winged fauna to watch this guy wading through the ocean at Winthrop Beach this morning.

By adamg - 12/10/23 - 3:16 pm
People boarding Charon's ferry across the Styx

The T won't be re-enacting Doré's vision of a ferry ride of the damned. Source.

The MBTA reports it's canceled its morning ferries tomorrow due to anticipated high winds and rough seas.

The Hingham ferry should resume service at 11 a.m., the Hingham/Hull/Logan ferry at 2 and the Charlestown ferry at noon, the T says.

By adamg - 12/7/23 - 9:44 am

Hkergrrl reports Boston will not be coming under attack at lunchtime: If you hear cannons and rifle fire around noon, that's just an honor guard at the Charlestown Navy Yard, no doubt to welcome the Annapolis cadets who will be facing off against Army on Saturday at Gillette.

By adamg - 11/11/23 - 10:39 pm
Bluebikes in Boston Harbor

Gary noticed what low tide exposed at Christopher Columbus Park this afternoon.

By adamg - 11/7/23 - 11:45 am
Webcam on Little Brewster Island with a view towards downtown Boston

Boston ahoy! See it larger.

The Coast Guard reports that Boston Light is now equipped with four Webcams, letting people see the view from the entrance to Boston Harbor. Read more.

By adamg - 11/4/23 - 10:21 am

The locals said they dumped 342 chests of tea overboard in ye olde tea party, but the owner of the ships only put in for compensation for 340. What happened to those other two chests? J.L. Bell ponders.

By adamg - 10/23/23 - 9:34 pm

WBUR reports on the 70th anniversary of an explosion that caused the greatest loss of life ever along the Boston waterfront: The Oct. 16, 1953 explosion aboard the USS Leyte, an aircraft carrier being converted into an anti-submarine carrier at the Boston Naval Shipyard - today the Raymond Flynn Marine Park in South Boston.

By adamg - 10/3/23 - 5:04 pm

The MBTA announced today that ferry service to and from East Boston and Winthrop will run until Nov. 30.

By adamg - 9/29/23 - 5:00 pm
Tall Shp Eagle

Adam Castiglioni visited the Coast Guard's cutter Eagle today after it docked at the Charlestown Navy Yard, next to Old Ironsides. It's open to the public until 7 p.m. tonight and between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. tomorrow.

By adamg - 9/28/23 - 12:34 pm
Coast Guard ice breaker docked at Coast Guard station in the North End

Eric Bender got a good view of the Thunder Bay, a Coast Guard ice breaker that was docked at the Coast Guard station off Commercial Street in the North End yesterday. It's normally berthed in Rockland, ME, where it goes out on the more frigid winter days to bust up the ice in the Penobscot River.

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