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By adamg - 7/26/23 - 7:59 am

NBC Boston reports Castle Island gulls are flying amok this summer:

Like a scene right out of "The Birds," customers are dropping their boxes of food and running from the scene screaming.

By adamg - 7/18/23 - 8:59 pm
Night heron at Lovejoy Wharf

Rachel Dolores was along the locks near Lovejoy Wharf Sunday night when she suddenly had to do a double take: Read more.

By adamg - 7/6/23 - 9:56 am
Catbird with a berry

Mary Ellen's been watching the birds chow down on berries along the Charles River in West Roxbury the past couple of days, such as this catbird.

A cedar waxwing also eats up: Read more.

By adamg - 6/3/23 - 10:10 pm
Great Blue Heron with just one wing extended

This great blue heron in Jamaica Pond was just hanging out, looking for fish to spear, when it suddenly unfurled one of its wings (and then promptly furled it again).

By adamg - 6/1/23 - 2:45 pm

Today is the start of the annual Massachusetts state turkey census. Report a turkey today.

By adamg - 6/1/23 - 1:31 pm
Baby plover

Mary Ellen spotted the baby plover at Squantum the other day.

By adamg - 5/5/23 - 2:36 pm
Phalarope

Mary Ellen says the local birding community is all atwitter about a fallout of red phalaropes off Cape Cod, far from their normal nesting areas in the Arctic - to which they migrate from southern oceans - so she reports she was pleasantly surprised when she spotted one in the water off Deer Island on a walk this morning.

By adamg - 5/4/23 - 10:03 am
Blue gray gnatcatcher

Mary Ellen spotted this blue gray gnatcatcher at Millennium Park in West Roxbury yesterday.

By adamg - 5/3/23 - 11:18 am
Geese eggs turned into goslings

Before and after photos.

Update: Boston Animal Control arrived today and took the geese, presumably to a place where they can splash around and do other geese-type stuff.

Geese aren't supposed to be hatching their eggs on rooftops, but employees at BPS headquarters in the Bolling Building in Nubian Square reports one feathered couple has done just that - and now they're worried how the goslings will survive. Read more.

By adamg - 4/25/23 - 10:09 pm
Yellow Warbler at Millnnium Park in full sing

Mary Ellen watched and listened to a yellow warbler singing today at Millennium Park in West Roxbury.

By adamg - 4/23/23 - 1:46 pm
Pigeon perched on a tombstone at the Granary Burying Ground

John Daley captured this winged spectre perched at the Granary Burying Ground on Tremont Street.

By adamg - 4/23/23 - 12:21 pm

Andrew Joslin reports test results show a fatal dose of a commonly used rodenticide in the blood of a young great horned owl found on the ground under its nest near the DCR swimming pool and rink on Turtle Pond Parkway in Hyde Park earlier this month. Read more.

By adamg - 4/12/23 - 12:07 pm
Two geese on a Jamaica Plain roof

Geese are not uncommon in Jamaica Plain - except maybe on people's roofs, so as she walked her dog this morning, Ally Stoughton couldn't help but look up when she heard some loud goose calls.

By adamg - 3/5/23 - 7:39 pm
Maturing eagle

Mary Ellen spotted this eagle, maybe 3 to 3 1/2 years old, across the Charles from Millennium Park today. Bald eagles go fully "bald" when they're about 4 1/2 years, assuming they don't get poisoned by rodenticide first.

By adamg - 3/1/23 - 8:54 pm

The Cape Wildlife Center in Barnstable reports that "MK," a bald eagle that had been nesting in a cemetery in Arlington died last night from internal hemorrhaging caused by rat poison. Read more.

By adamg - 2/19/23 - 6:22 pm
A hawk perched above South Boston

Michael Spicher reports this hawk regularly hangs out outside his South Boston condo.

By adamg - 2/16/23 - 3:33 pm
Peregrine falcon at moonset and sunrise in Millennium Park

Mary Ellen captured a falcon, up for an early breakfast, at Millennium Park in West Roxbury this morning.

By adamg - 2/9/23 - 12:24 pm
A couple of ring-necked ducks at Jamaica Pond

There are always mallards at Jamaica Pond, sometimes supplemented in the spring and summer by a family or two of wood ducks (and one black Muscovy duck in love with a mallard), but the pond now is home, even if temporarily, to all sorts of other ducks. Read more.

By adamg - 1/6/23 - 3:17 pm
Eagle on a light pole in Somerville

Andromeda Yelton spotted this bald eagle today, perching on a light pole at Trum Field in Somerville.

By adamg - 12/31/22 - 12:19 pm
Northern Lapwing

Mary Ellen journeyed up to Ipswich to take a gander at the Northern Lapwing that is now plovering about in a field there. Audubon reports Northern Lapwings are normally found all over Europe and Asia, but are only rarely seen here, sometimes blown here by winter storms. The Mass. bird world is, of course, all atwitter, Mary Ellen says.

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