Mary Ellen videoed a deer going for a swim in the Charles River at Millennium Park in West Roxbury yesterday. Read more.
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By adamg - 6/8/22 - 3:08 pm
A family of wood ducks glided along the surface of Jamaica Pond yesterday.
By adamg - 6/7/22 - 11:44 pm
Male bluegills have been busy of late building communal nests at several locations along the Jamaica Pond shoreline, such as this collection on the southern edge of the pond, to the left of the boathouse. Read more.
By adamg - 6/7/22 - 11:05 am
Joey Ciaramitaro has been on Gloucester's docks since he was nine, and that he'd never before seen an Atlantic salmon swimming in the harbor.
By adamg - 6/7/22 - 9:49 am
Mary Ellen spotted this frog enjoying the early morning mists along the Charles River in Millennium Park in West Roxbury yesterday.
By adamg - 6/6/22 - 10:01 am
Ladybugs Leaf spotted the Esplanade's latest visitor today.
Patrick Roath saw him in the Fens yesterday: Read more.
By adamg - 6/4/22 - 11:50 am
A communications tower off Rivermoor Street, near Millennium Park in West Roxbury, is a popular place for birds to perch and survey the nearby Charles River. The other day, though, a pair of crows decided to try to drive off a bald eagle sitting up there. And Mary Ellen was there to watch the dive bombing.
By adamg - 6/3/22 - 9:12 am
Walking along the Charles River in Millennium Park yesterday, Mary Ellen spotted both feathered and furry fauna. Read more.
By adamg - 6/1/22 - 3:21 pm
WBZ reports, doesn't say if the attack was near the line with Hyde Park, where residents have learned to deal with bloodthirsty terror turkeys, one of which went after a WBZ reporter.
By adamg - 5/31/22 - 2:02 pm
Michael Spicher spotted some geese littles taking advantage of a puddle near the Expressway and the narrow end of Fort Point Channel that splits the South End from South Boston today. Amy Deveau, who lives nearby, though, is not liking the scene:
this stresses me out. I helped escort a family of geese under 93 and stopped traffic in both directions and when we all made it to the other side I burst into tears. I hope these lil guys make it back to the channel.
Today's fun fact: Snakes that live in Needham's Cutler Park can rattle, but they're not rattlesnakes
By adamg - 5/29/22 - 4:38 pm
A little hard to see, but there's a snake near the center of the photo, which Greg Hunt took today at Powell Island, a part of the marshy area along the Charles in Needham, near the Newton line, just across from Millennium Park in West Roxbury. And he reports it didn't like having its photo taken: Read more.
By adamg - 5/28/22 - 10:33 am
One of the larger turtles in Jamaica Pond took in some sun yesterday at the pond's main turtle haven.
By adamg - 5/21/22 - 9:51 am
MassBeetles is a catalog of all the beetle species known to live in Massachusetts.
"As of 5/20/2022, the database consists of 3243 records, and includes 2938 unique species in 95 families."
By adamg - 5/17/22 - 10:30 am
Mary Ellen spotted an eastern phoebe grabbing some breakfast yesterday, but in West Roxbury, not at Central Perk.
By adamg - 5/14/22 - 8:55 pm
Enoch Pratt reports this baby bunny was running up the Leverett Connector today when a woman stopped, jumped out and managed to scoop up the bun and get it off the highway.
By adamg - 5/14/22 - 5:29 pm
Steve Holt alerts us that in a Charlestown Facebook group, an Albion Place resident reported spotting a capybara sauntering down his street. Capyrbaras are native to South America and are not known for inhabiting the Town.
It was quite a bizarre sighting. If anyone is looking for it, I thought I would post it here for visibility.
By adamg - 5/13/22 - 10:05 pm
Beth Gavin watched a newly expanded family of geese quickly making their way near the Black Falcon Pier today: Read more.
By adamg - 5/12/22 - 9:24 am
Mary Ellen watched some ducklings trying out the Charles River in West Roxbury yesterday.
By adamg - 5/7/22 - 10:56 pm
State Police posted photos from a rescue mission in the HOV lane on the southbound Expressway in Dorchester, where a pair of geese and their new brood found themselves trapped today. State troopers and Boston animal-control officers managed to round up the wayward birds and get them to somewhere safer.
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