The other day, Samuel Watson was kayaking on the Charles River, about a half mile down from Millennium Park in West Roxbury, when he spotted this coyote.
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Charles River
By adamg - 9/14/20 - 4:59 pm
Somebody brought a chair down to the banks of the Charles River in Millennium Park in West Roxbury and then left it there.
I used it this afternoon to watch a great blue heron on the Dedham side of the river - wanted to be ready should it just stop standing there and fly. It finally did - all of 20 feet upriver, where it then proceeded to just stand there again. Read more.
By adamg - 8/25/20 - 10:17 am
On her morning walks through Millennium Park in West Roxbury, Mary Ellen usually looks for birds and other interesting creatures, but of late, she's noticed that somebody's been digging up manmade stuff from the mud along the Charles River edge of what was the Gardner Street Landfill until the 1990s. Read more.
By adamg - 8/12/20 - 4:38 pm
A disgusted citizen files a 311 complaint about conditions in the Nashua Street Park, which runs along the Charles River behind Nashua Street: Read more.
By adamg - 8/9/20 - 12:38 pm
Mary Ellen spotted this semipalmated plover, looking like it wanted to be left alone as it gets ready for its daily ablutions in the Charles River at Millennium Park in West Roxbury yesterday.
By adamg - 8/7/20 - 9:07 am
Mary Ellen captured a deer family wading into the low waters of the Charles River between Millennium and Cutler parks this morning.
By adamg - 7/20/20 - 12:31 pm
Mary Ellen continues her exploration of bird life along the Charles River and Sawmill Brook at Millennium Park in West Roxbury. Yesterday, she spotted a pretzel bird, um, egret.
She also reports there's a family of peregrine falcons enjoying the towers along the road down to the canoe launch at the park: Read more.
By adamg - 7/20/20 - 9:54 am
The other day, Adam Castiglioni spotted a lot of dead fish floating in the Charles at the Museum of Science and wondered what's up with that. Read more.
By adamg - 7/16/20 - 9:37 am
Roving UHub photographer Mary Ellen was out and about along the Charles River in Millennium Park in West Roxbury this morning, where she spotted an egret hunting for breakfast and a rower paddling through the mist: Read more.
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 - 7/10/20 - 12:43 pm
Roving UHub photographer Mary Ellen reports the great blue herons have discovered the water around Millennium Park makes for some good fishing.
By adamg - 7/9/20 - 8:56 pm
Roving UHub photographer Mary Ellen spotted a pair of geese and what appears to be a pair of deer, but which she reports is actually a trio, but a fawn is hidden in the grass by the Charles River.
By adamg - 6/27/20 - 8:12 pm
Aegon Targaryen VI spotted a bun bun by the Charles River today, raising the question of what happens when the first Cambridge bun crosses the river and meets a Boston bun.
By adamg - 6/25/20 - 4:17 pm
The Charles River Watershed Association this afternoon issued a public-health advisory for the Charles River from the Mass. Ave. Bridge to the Museum of Science due to a bloom of the dreaded cyanobacteria: Read more.
By adamg - 6/6/20 - 2:13 pm
Roving UHub photographer Mary Ellen spotted a pair of snapping turtles down by the river in Millennium Park today, and you know what they say about snappers and broomsticks (even if those stories aren't true).
By adamg - 4/10/20 - 10:26 pm
617 Images photographed several Boston-area hotels that are lit up to show support for healthcare and other essential workers during the Covid-19 crisis, including the Hyatt Regency on Memorial Drive in Cambridge, which reflected off the Charles River tonight.
By adamg - 3/21/20 - 8:52 pm
Neal Gaffey spotted this guy putting maximum distance between himself and pretty much everybody else today.
By adamg - 3/1/20 - 1:49 pm
Theodore Hook noticed a mother duck all ready to go, in a nest ensconced in one of the Charlestown locks today.
By adamg - 2/10/20 - 9:23 pm
WFXT reports state officials might have to push back a planned 2022 start for a ten-year program to replace the current Allston/Cambridge turnpike interchange because of mounting opposition to a proposal to build a bridge over the Charles while the work is being done.
People living near the "temporary" Forest Hills T bus depot could probably speak to how temporary "temporary" is around here.
By adamg - 2/7/20 - 4:33 pm
Michele Scarlata looked out his window at the evidence of just how windy it is this afternoon.
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