Mary Ellen spotted this merlin, a type of falcon that's bigger than a robin but smaller than a crow, perched at Millennium Park in West Roxbury today.

Brooks Payne captured some geese in the Muddy River along the Riverway section of the Emerald Necklace.

Complaints that have been bubbling up in a South End Facebook group reached 311 today when a distraught resident filed a complaint about the chaos at the southeast corner of Washington Street at its intersection with East Springfield Street: Read more.

Sundaram snapped some turtles soaking in the sun at the Chestnut Hill Reservoir in Brighton today.

Matt Frank watched the sun go down over clouds, the Mystic River, the Tobin Bridge and birds this evening.

Yesterday's sunset.

Dave Wattles, MassWildlife's black-bear and furbearer biologist, will lead an online discussion on coyotes in Boston - how they got here, how they live and how the more bipedal among us can coexist with them, starting at 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 19. Free registration required.

Boston Animal Care and Control reports five rabid raccoons have been recovered of late in Boston - most recently on Mission Hill: Read more.

Cambridge Day hops onto the story of American toads, which can eat 10,000 insects apiece in the summer and which, after shedding their skin, eat it.

A frantic citizen files a 311 complaint about the unstoppable rats swarming Commonwealth and Chestnut Hill avenues: Read more.