The Mystic River Watershed Association ponders all the dead fish floating to the top of the Mystic of late, concludes it's probably a natural phenomenon, unrelated to either possible oil spills or low amounts of oxygen in the water: Read more.
Thereisnodog spotted this young bun on Comm. Ave. in the middle of BU today.
Moon jellyfish are flooding Boston Harbor, moving with the tides and occasionally puffing themselves into balloon-like shapes to pulse themselves a few inches forward at a time. The large rings are their reproductive organs.
Jef Taylor, who works at the Franklin Park Zoo, shows us the nest a pair of house sparrows built in a weed trimmer stored in a zoo tool cage:
Nest components: grasses, trash, flamingo feathers.
Loose boa. Photo by Braintree Police.
UPDATE: Teacup-poodle owners can relax: SNAKE HAS BEEN FOUND AND IN CUSTODY WITH ANIMAL CONTROL. AREA IS NOW SAFE
Braintree Police are warning owners of small pets in South Braintree to keep them inside until an escaped boa constrictor is recaptured. Read more.
Wicked Local Brookline reports (last item):
A caller reported an aggressive turkey followed her until a good Samaritan let her onto a porch to wait it out on Mason Terrace.
JB Parrett watched as a goose captured some dock sitters on the Esplanade last evening.
And right in the middle of an interview, too.
PIX: This is my photog @tvdang72 laughing at me as I pick bird poop out of my hair. And me, grossed out. pic.twitter.com/nU1uwA7hBW
— susantran (@susantran) May 2, 2015
Hillary spotted this poor mother goose in the Fenway today, along with a sign from an outraged person about how her eggs have been stolen and demanding justice for mother, now resorting to sitting on tennis balls and apples, apparently.
Welcome to Dot reports these turkeys crossed Granite Avenue today:
The Brooklinization of Dorchester continues.
In South Boston, Eileen Murphy spotted the first ice-cream truck of the season:
Jef Taylor introduces us to the leopard slug, which he has loved since he first spotted one on Mission Hill years ago.
Capt. Nemo spotted a turkey strolling around the Academy Hill area in Brighton today, and wondered what it was doing there, instead of terrorizing people in Brookline.
Roving UHub photographer Alkali, meanwhile, spotted a hawk perched atop a light pole at the intersection of Huntington and South Huntington Avenues:
Wicked Local Brookline reports:
A Gardner Road resident called to report several turkeys were at her door.
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