A family of wood ducks glided along the surface of Jamaica Pond yesterday.
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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 - 6/4/22 - 11:50 am
A communications tower off Rivermoor Street, near Millennium Park in West Roxbury, is a popular place for birds to perch and survey the nearby Charles River. The other day, though, a pair of crows decided to try to drive off a bald eagle sitting up there. And Mary Ellen was there to watch the dive bombing.
By adamg - 6/3/22 - 9:12 am
Walking along the Charles River in Millennium Park yesterday, Mary Ellen spotted both feathered and furry fauna. Read more.
By adamg - 5/17/22 - 10:30 am
Mary Ellen spotted an eastern phoebe grabbing some breakfast yesterday, but in West Roxbury, not at Central Perk.
By adamg - 5/13/22 - 10:05 pm
Beth Gavin watched a newly expanded family of geese quickly making their way near the Black Falcon Pier today: Read more.
By adamg - 5/12/22 - 9:24 am
Mary Ellen watched some ducklings trying out the Charles River in West Roxbury yesterday.
By adamg - 5/7/22 - 10:56 pm
State Police posted photos from a rescue mission in the HOV lane on the southbound Expressway in Dorchester, where a pair of geese and their new brood found themselves trapped today. State troopers and Boston animal-control officers managed to round up the wayward birds and get them to somewhere safer.
By adamg - 4/30/22 - 3:46 pm
Mary Ellen spotted this great blue heron up in a tree around sunset yesterday in West Roxbury. She reports it was actually trying to hang on in the face of brisk winds.
By adamg - 4/27/22 - 11:33 pm
Mary Ellen was among the birders who spotted this white ibis along the Charles in Brighton today - roughly 1,000 miles north of the bird's normal range.
By adamg - 4/24/22 - 2:32 pm
Adam Balsam chronicles the 27 different species of birds he spotted over a week in the North End and the Public Garden.
By adamg - 4/18/22 - 4:09 pm
Mary Ellen spotted this blue-gray gnatcatcher at Millennium Park in West Roxbury this morning (OK, maybe it was just a shadow that made it look like it was ready to take on some round green pigs).
She also spotted this seemingly happier vesper sparrow: Read more.
By adamg - 4/11/22 - 1:50 pm
Mary Ellen spotted this male blue grosbeak, before it turns more fully blue, at Millennium Park in West Roxbury today. Along the East Coast, they normally don't come north of central New Jersey.
By adamg - 4/8/22 - 3:50 pm
Chestnut Hill woman relives the trauma of finding a live turkey in her family room.
By adamg - 4/8/22 - 10:00 am
Mary Ellen hied over to Franklin Park yesterday in time to spot this yellow-throated warbler, which are pretty uncommon north of Maryland (and should not be confused with the far more mundane yellow warbler).
By adamg - 4/2/22 - 1:07 pm
Mary Ellen spotted a male bluebird checking out a possible nesting site in Millennium Park this morning.
By adamg - 3/25/22 - 12:06 pm
On a walk around Millennium Park in West Roxbury this morning, Mary Ellen spotted two eagles perched on the transmission tower at the National Grid facility down below on Rivermoor Street.
By adamg - 3/20/22 - 11:23 pm
Roving UHub photographer Jed Hresko noticed all these birds flocking down to the Costco lot at Gateway Center, no doubt because of the breadcrumbs somebody dumped there (lower left).
By adamg - 3/6/22 - 2:25 pm
Mary Ellen spotted this wind-tossed eagle at Millennium Park in West Roxbury today. She says she spotted three in total: Two adults and one young'un, still mostly brown, and carrying a stick in his or her beak down by the boat launch.
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