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By adamg - 8/25/24 - 11:51 am
Whale with tale snared by fishing gear

Hope Cole reports that on a whale-watch cruise to Stellwagen Bank, people spotted a humpback whale in distress - rope from some fishing gear wrapped around its tail. Read more.

By adamg - 8/19/24 - 9:35 am
Black-crowned night herons keep a close watch at Millennium Park

Mary Ellen spotted a pair of black-crowned night herons keeping an eye out for coppers, or maybe just a big fish, at Millennium Park yesterday.

By adamg - 8/15/24 - 10:49 am
Turkey on the grass

Turkey. Grass. Sidewalk.

Somebody who apparently does not live in a Boston neighborhood in which turkeys normally flock has filed a 311 complaint about the "loose" turkey that's been hanging out on the Common - a couple days after somebody filed a 311 complaint about a turkey in the Public Garden (maybe the same turkey, if it's learned how to cross Charles).

By adamg - 8/1/24 - 11:26 pm
Raccoon still stuck in sewer grate

Rocky before nearby resident showed up with some olive oil. Photo by Cambridge FD.

Cambridge Day reports how Cambridge firefighters, DPW workers and Animal Control teamed up - with the help of an olive-oil donation by a nearby resident - to free a raccoon that somehow got stuck in a sewer grate on Harvey Street in North Cambridge today.

By adamg - 7/31/24 - 9:30 am

Brookline.News reports the arrival of five fiberglass turkeys, decorated by local artists, for display on town streets.

By adamg - 7/29/24 - 9:12 am

WBZ reports on the terrifying tom on Cummings Road in Brighton.

By adamg - 7/21/24 - 10:08 am
Deer in a backyard

Pass reports from the area of Beech Street and Alpheus Road on Roslindale's Grew Hill that this morning he and his wife looked out into their backyard this morning and spotted a foraging deer - not something that particular area is known for (down the hill at the George Wright Golf Course or Sherrin Woods, sure): Read more.

By adamg - 7/14/24 - 5:13 pm
Booby and cormorant in Old Harbor

Hugmajesty spotted our rare fly-in brown booby hanging out near Carson Beach with one of the local cormorants, in sharp contrast to yesterday's attempt by some of the meaner gulls to chase it off. Also note its feet are yellowish - you're thinking of blue-footed boobies, which are a different species altogether, one found in the eastern Pacific.

By adamg - 7/13/24 - 5:33 pm
Brown booby in South Boston

Mary Ellen was among the bird enthusiasts who gathered on the beach between the Curley Community Center and Carson Beach today for a chance to photograph the brown booby that decided to head north for some time in the Hub.

The booby in action - look at that neck go: Read more.

By adamg - 7/7/24 - 11:40 am
Buck in Arnold Arboretum

Ryan spotted two huge deer in the Arnold Arboretum yesterday, one less camera shy than the other.

Mary Ellen reports admission was one buck at Millennium Park this morning: Read more.

By adamg - 7/1/24 - 10:29 am
Turtle in the grass, alas

Turtle in the grass, alas

A concerned citizen files a 311 request that somebody come rescue the turtle that is now shelling around where it doesn't belong, in the Public Garden lagoon: Read more.

By adamg - 6/24/24 - 1:06 pm
Slime mold in Millennium Park

Mary Ellen spotted something a little different the other day on one of her walks around Millennium Park in West Roxbury: A slime mold. Read more.

By adamg - 6/21/24 - 1:06 pm
Hawk on top of a Green Line car

Tim Murphy reports this hawk rode a BC trolley from the Government Center loop to at least Arlington, where he snapped these photos, today, wonders if anybody had the heart to tell the hawk that BC is probably the wrong school for it.

By adamg - 6/20/24 - 12:11 pm

GBH reports on efforts to help the peregrine chicks born atop Boston skyscrapers - like at the Christian Science Center. By the GBH reporter who has already made his name for stories like this: Craig LeMoult.

By adamg - 6/17/24 - 10:17 pm

State Police report a Roxbury woman standing in the breakdown lane of Rte. 3 north in Braintree after the driver of the RAV 4 she was in hit a deer in the right lane died when the driver of another vehicle swerved into the breakdown lane to avoid the stopped car and hit her early Sunday. Read more.

By adamg - 6/17/24 - 10:00 am
Snake along the Neponset Riverwalk in Mattapan

Bobby Boyd went for a walk along the Neponset River Greenway in Mattapan and Milton the other day. Among the things he saw was a snake resting in a tight space on the Milton end of the Harvest River Bridge, a goose of the non-Canada variety near that and a pair of deer on an islet in the river between Central Avenue and Capen Street. Read more.

By adamg - 6/12/24 - 12:50 pm

WBUR reports on the New England Aquarium's oldest resident.

By adamg - 6/8/24 - 9:25 pm

Turkey chases ostrich

Bonnie Rovics was at the Franklin Park Zoo the other day when she noticed one of our local turkeys had gotten into the pen where the ostriches live - and that when an ostrich came after it, it mounted a counter-attack.

By adamg - 6/8/24 - 1:29 pm

WBUR lights the way, suggests you maybe not try to trap any fireflies you find in old pickle jars because you'll be depriving them of what little time they have on this earth.

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