Mary Ellen spotted a hummingbird topping off today in Newton's Nahantan Park before the long migration south for the winter.
Birds
By adamg - 9/4/21 - 7:06 pm
Greg Cook kayaked through Rumney Marsh in Saugus yesterday and watched thousands of swallows murmurating. He also spotted fiddler crabs. Lots and lots of fiddler crabs.
By adamg - 8/30/21 - 8:25 am
Mary Ellen spotted this eagle at Millennium Park in West Roxbury early this morning.
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By adamg - 7/15/21 - 10:19 am
Update, 8/26: It's safe to put the feeders back up.
The state Division of Fisheries and Wildlife is urging people to take down their bird feeders - and stow away their bird baths - because of a mystery illness that is killing birds across the eastern US that might spread where birds congregate. Read more.
By adamg - 6/17/21 - 10:13 am
The mama duck and her seven ducklings had settled in for a snooze late yesterday afternoon among the mud and rocks along the Perkins Street side of Jamaica Pond, just up from that outlet tunnel. As the ducklings huddled in a big fuzzball, mother burrowed into her own feathers - but with one eye still on the water.
Then a heron landed maybe 8 or 9 feet away. At first, it stood there, seeming to eye the ducklings. Read more.
By adamg - 6/14/21 - 10:18 pm
A disgusted citizen filed a 311 report after being dive bombed by a seagull at lunch time on West 3rd and C streets in South Boston this afternoon: Read more.
By adamg - 6/14/21 - 4:26 pm
Mary Ellen was down by the Charles River at Millennium Park this morning and watched a great blue heron enjoy a fresh catfish meal. It took the bird a half hour to subdue and finally consume the entire large fish, she reports. Read more.
By adamg - 6/1/21 - 7:02 pm
This heron would spend a few minutes today at one spot at Jamaica Pond (spotted here along the Perkins Street side), then flit off to another.
By adamg - 5/9/21 - 6:27 pm
Mary Ellen found herself way down upon the Swan-y River today, at Millennium Park in West Roxbury.
By adamg - 5/8/21 - 10:51 am
A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint asking the city to do, well, something, about this bird, which has been hanging out in an apartment-complex gazebo off Adams Street in Dorchester Lower Mills for a couple of weeks now. The report does not specify what the bird has been doing that's worth city action, aside from the fact that it exists.
By adamg - 5/7/21 - 12:42 pm
I don't know, I love the river views, but seems kinda small.
Mary Ellen traversed the Charles this morning and spotted a couple of bald eagles in Cutler Park along the Needham/Dedham line, across from West Roxbury - possibly checking out good nesting spots.
By adamg - 5/6/21 - 11:47 am
Mary Ellen went out for an early morning walk at Millennium Park in West Roxbury and, spotted, among other things, a young male Northern Parula getting some sustenance (she also saw both a deer and a killdeer, but the latter was, once again, not living up to its name).
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 - 4/14/21 - 9:12 am
Mary Ellen watched tree swallows duke it out for a prime nesting box at Millennium Park in West Roxbury. Read more.
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.
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