Mary Ellen watched tree swallows duke it out for a prime nesting box at Millennium Park in West Roxbury. Read more.
Birds
By adamg - 4/8/21 - 6:39 pm
A seagull tried to figure out how to down half a bagel at Revere Beach this afternoon.
By adamg - 3/30/21 - 11:25 pm
Mary Ellen spotted a sparrow sitting atop one of the rustic birdhouses along the upper soccer fields at Millennium Park in West Roxbury this morning.
By adamg - 3/23/21 - 11:22 am
Forest Hills Cemetery says bird watchers flocking there to watch a pair of nesting great horned owls have gotten out of hand and is asking people to stay away from the nesting area, near the "contemporary burial area." Read more.
By adamg - 3/22/21 - 7:23 pm
Mary Ellen spotted a trio of swans seeming to have a neck contest in the mist along the Charles River at Millennium Park in West Roxbury this morning.
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By adamg - 3/5/21 - 11:21 pm
Mary Ellen spotted this green-winged teal on the Charles River in Watertown today, not far from where she spotted a male wood duck: Read more.
By adamg - 3/4/21 - 10:37 am
Mary Ellen reports she was standing under a tree by the Charles River in West Roxbury this morning when an eagle landed in the tree, basically right on top of her - maybe the one she saw from a bit further away yesterday.
By adamg - 3/3/21 - 2:30 pm
Mary Ellen found this stern bird along the Charles River at Cow Island Pond off Rivermoor Street in West Roxbury today.
Compare to this younger eagle.
By adamg - 2/26/21 - 9:57 pm
Mark McDonald reports that an apparently lonely swan in Mill Pond - the part of the Mother Brook that River Street crosses in Hyde Park - seemed to be a bit happier today now that its partner has rejoined it after several weeks of absence.
By adamg - 2/24/21 - 7:54 pm
Mary Ellen mixed it up this morning and headed over to Cutler Park, on the other side of the Charles from Millennium Park, where she spotted this juvenile bald eagle.
By adamg - 2/17/21 - 9:24 am
Mary Ellen reports the coyotes at Millennium Park were howling this morning, as they looked for love, although one coyote at the very top of the hill might also have been looking for something to munch to start the day.
A bit further down the hill, she spotted a red-bellied woodpecker, probably too high up for any yippin' 'yote to chomp: Read more.
By adamg - 1/31/21 - 8:24 pm
Mary Ellen watched a couple of swans try to show each other who was King of Jamaica Pond today.
By adamg - 1/27/21 - 10:02 am
A great blue heron took flight over the Charles River near Millennium Park this morning, and Mary Ellen was there to watch it.
By adamg - 1/14/21 - 10:05 am
Mary Ellen shows us one of the two bald eagles she watched hanging out yesterday in the trees along the Charles River's Cow Island Pond, off Rivermoor Street in West Roxbury. Could the couple be searching for starter nest for a new family?
By adamg - 1/6/21 - 12:11 pm
Mary Ellen got a twofer on a visit to Leverett Pond on the Brookline/Boston line yesterday: A belted kingfisher and a great blue heron both perched above the water: Read more.
By adamg - 1/1/21 - 11:52 pm
Adam Balsam reports he and the kids spotted this owl up on a wall at Castle Island on Thursday morning - a few weekends after they'd driven up to Plum Island to see an owl, only they didn't.
I love that we we were ultimately able to see one so close to home.
By adamg - 12/17/20 - 11:42 am
Patrick McMahon looks out over all the snow in downtown Boston this morning.
Michael Spicher's eye, though, is drawn to a dark-eyed junco flitting about in Jamaica Plain: Read more.
By adamg - 12/11/20 - 10:36 pm
Rick Macomber watched an American kestrel come in for a landing in East Boston with some grub - literally, a big, juicy grub.
By adamg - 12/11/20 - 1:54 pm
Tim Devin spotted this bird on Spring Hill in Somerville today, has a question:
OK, Internet, what the hell is this?
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