Wildlife

Back Bay, Beacon Hill buns bring bliss, bemusement

By adamg - 2/3/16 - 5:47 pm

Rabbit on Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay

Deborah Elizabeth Finn reports spotting an urban bun in the tiny front yard of a home on Commonwealth Avenue between Hereford and Mass. Ave. today.

ABC Haskins, meanwhile, spotted a rabbit right outside 1 Ashburton Place today.

A Beacon Hill bunny last fall.

Geshundheit!

By adamg - 1/29/16 - 10:23 pm

Wood duck at Leverett Pond in Jamaica Plain

Mary Ellen says it looked like she caught a wood duck in mid-sneeze the other day on the Jamaica Plain side of Leverett Pond.

Doe, a deer, a female East Boston deer

By adamg - 1/14/16 - 6:37 am

Photo by Massachusetts Environmental Police.

UPDATE: State officials now say the deer was not a pet; she moved into somebody's backyard and the homeowner didn't even know she was there.

State Environmental Police report:

Today, January 13, 2016, Massachusetts Environmental Police officers and members of the agency’s Large Animal Response Team (LART) executed a search warrant in East Boston to remove a white tail deer that was suspected of being kept as a pet.

Little round yellowish birds are local birds and local birds are fresh

By adamg - 1/6/16 - 5:34 pm

Spotted this little chirper on the Greenway near the InterContinental today. Anybody know what kind of bird it is?

You're sitting at your desk when you look up and there's this hawk right in your face

By adamg - 1/4/16 - 11:50 pm

See it larger.

Nate Russell snapped this visitor today on a little ledge outside his company's offices on Memorial Drive in Cambridge. "We've seen him before in the trees but never this close," he reports.

Looks like the Acme Co. has a potential customer in West Roxbury

By adamg - 1/3/16 - 1:16 pm

A roving UHub photographer on the way back from Home Depot spotted this coyote roaming Caspar Street in West Roxbury around 12:20 p.m. today.

What a hoot: Snowy owl visits the docks of Gloucester

By adamg - 12/30/15 - 9:11 pm

Some cool video.

Wet seal a hot topic at Castle Island

By adamg - 12/26/15 - 1:03 pm

John Gage actually photographed three seals off Castle Island, including this guy.

A very pheasant Christmas in the Back Bay

By adamg - 12/25/15 - 7:45 pm

MC Slim JB spotted this pheasant by the Loews Hotel on Berkeley Street today.

Our ground may not be snowy, but our owls are

By adamg - 12/23/15 - 4:14 pm

Snowy owl at Castle Island in South Boston

Eileen Murphy recently spotted this snowy owl that seems to have taken up residence at Castle Island. She reports it seemed to be eyeing her small dog as a snack.