Live Boston News reports Boston and Cambridge firefighters and State Police responded en masse to the Weeks Footbridge over the Charles yesterday evening on a report of a body on the ice and a huge amount of blood splattered on the bridge and the ice. The body turned out to be a mannequin and the blood was fake, and now somebody will have some questions to answer should State Police detectives find them.
By adamg - 2/19/25 - 10:26 pm
Both Boston and Cambridge firefighters responded to the banks of the Charles River around 4:45 p.m. on reports of people walking on the river, roughly in the area of Fairfield Street in the Back Bay. Read more.
By adamg - 2/10/25 - 9:02 am
The Crimson reports Boston firefighters recovered the body of somebody who apparently jumped into the river from the Cambridge side of the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge around 2 a.m. on Sunday.
By adamg - 1/19/25 - 12:23 pm
Mary Ellen captured some muskrat love in Millennium Park along the Charles River yesterday. A bit upstream, she spotted an eagle doing a celebratory eagle dance before chowing down on that deer carcass on the ice.
By adamg - 1/18/25 - 10:20 am
Mary Ellen witnessed quite the scene yesterday at the Cow Island Pond stretch of the Charles River off Rivermoor Street in West Roxbury, after rushing over on reports coyotes chased down a deer onto the ice - only to scattered, possibly after one of them also up and died. And that left the newly deceased deer available as some fresh buffet for some scavenger birds, including, yes, the noble bald eagle (who was joined by a mate: Read more
By adamg - 1/17/25 - 5:02 pm
Ari Ofsevit was running along the Charles in Cambridge yesterday when he noticed an eagle walking on the ice and nd asked a guy with a camera if he'd taken a photo.
By adamg - 1/4/25 - 11:43 pm
Stephen C. Bedell watched the sun go down over the Charles River, the lagoon and the Community Boating Christmas boat from the Longfellow Bridge this evening.
By adamg - 12/30/24 - 6:36 pm
Roving UHub photographer stopped to snap a tree reflection on the Charles in Allston near the Harvard athletic buildings, back when there was still ice on the river along with calm water, like, this morning.
By adamg - 12/18/24 - 9:31 am
James was riding along the Esplanade lagoon on the Paul Dudley White path yesterday when he couldn't help but notice the eagle flying along the banks of the Charles before coming in for a landing on a tree on the Storrow side of the lagoon.
Earlier:
Eagle eyeing the Muddy River.
By adamg - 12/6/24 - 10:31 pm
Patrick Snyder captured this evening's sunset over the Charles from an outbound Red Line train on the Longfellow Bridge.
By adamg - 11/8/24 - 5:08 pm
All that rain we haven't been getting has meant dramatically lowered rivers, a statewide "red flag" warning about how easily things can go up in flames and now a state "critical drought" designation for "Massachusetts's Central and Northeast regions, including the Charles River watershed," according to the Charles River Watershed Association:
Streamflow in the Charles River is at critically low levels, with some sections showing zero flow.
By adamg - 10/10/24 - 10:44 am
Mary Ellen looked across the Charles from Millennium Park in West Roxbury at a copse of trees in Needham this morning.
By adamg - 10/9/24 - 12:41 pm
The Boston Public Health Commission reports the state has lifted its cyanobacteria advisory for the Charles River between the Longfellow Bridge and the Charles River Dam, including the Broad and Lechmere canals in Cambridge. Read more.
By adamg - 9/30/24 - 7:50 pm
Roving UHub photographer Jed Hresko stopped for a moment on the Mass. Ave. Bridge to enjoy the sunset this evening.
By adamg - 9/29/24 - 12:18 pm
Mary Ellen spotted this great egret doing a little noshing in the Charles River off Millennium Park in West Roxbury the other day.
By adamg - 9/23/24 - 10:25 am
State officials report the feds have awarded the MBTA $472 million to replace the current 100-year-old drawbridges that connect North Station to points north and west over the Charles River. Read more.
By adamg - 9/23/24 - 8:50 am
The Crimson reports Harvard University will built and maintain a public dock at Herter Park, along the Charles River in Brighton, not because it really wants to, but as part of a deal to win state approval to allow renovations at its current boathouses, one on each side of the river - on shoreland that state law normally requires be open to the public.
By adamg - 9/20/24 - 9:25 am
The state Department of Public Health yesterday confirmed that the Charles River from the Longfellow to the dam is now full of blue-green algae, which means you need to be especially careful to keep your dogs and young children out of it, the Charles River Watershed Association reports. Read more.
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