On Monday, an outraged resident filed a 311 complaint about the goings on at the kayak launch on the Charles at Millennium Park - which is at the end of a fairly narrow path and surrounded by trees and brush: Read more.
By adamg - 8/27/24 - 10:55 pm
Mary Ellen watched the sun go down over the Charles River from Millennium Park in West Roxbury this evening.
By adamg - 8/19/24 - 1:22 pm
The Cambridge Fire Department reports a Boston Duck Boat rescued a father and child from the Charles River near the Royal Sonesta Hotel on Land Boulevard this morning. Read more.
By adamg - 8/19/24 - 9:35 am
Mary Ellen spotted a pair of black-crowned night herons keeping an eye out for coppers, or maybe just a big fish, at Millennium Park yesterday.
By adamg - 8/3/24 - 9:04 am
The other day, Mary Ellen spotted the glossy ibis that's been bringing all the birders down to the Millennium Park kayak launch the last week or so.
By adamg - 6/6/24 - 11:52 am
Mary Ellen reports that she and Dolly the Dog came across four egg-laying turtles along the Charles River in Millennium Park in West Roxbury yesterday (and that she and Dolly kept a good distance and didn't linger so as not to stress them).
By adamg - 5/20/24 - 9:47 am
DCR will be holding a public meeting Wednesday evening to help it map out a long-term plan for better managing the annual fall Head of the Charles Regatta between the Watertown line and the Charles River basin. Read more.
By adamg - 5/11/24 - 12:39 pm
Roving UHub photographer Hope Cole spotted this turkey, no doubt hoping she can catch up with the Duck Boat at its next stop, near Science Park yesterday.
By adamg - 5/5/24 - 2:49 pm
A concerned citizen filed a 311 report yesterday about all the dead fish on the rocks by the North Washington Street bridge and the Eliot School in the North End. Read more.
By adamg - 4/15/24 - 1:50 pm
A snake found some old concrete and asphalt chunks a good place to do some sunning at the kayak launch in Millennium Park in West Roxbury this afternoon.
By adamg - 3/24/24 - 8:57 pm
Mary Ellen watched a pair of Wilson's snipes along some fast moving water at Millennium Park in West Roxbury today: Read more.
By adamg - 3/16/24 - 4:54 pm
Out for a stroll along the Esplanade today, Fuad spotted an alert bald eagle perched on a tree near the playground near the Mass. Ave. Bridge.
By adamg - 3/5/24 - 5:04 pm
Mary Ellen videoed a muskrat enjoying a hearty breakfast of the choicest roots at Millennium Park in West Roxbury this morning: Read more.
By adamg - 3/2/24 - 3:48 pm
The Swellesley Report details how just another Friday night in Wellesley, Needham and Dover turned exciting when police blew up a live mortar some guy doing some magnet fishing found in the Charles River where the three towns meet - after they sent out alerts to residents to not get alarmed when they heard something exploding down by the river.
By adamg - 2/4/24 - 5:30 pm
Tony Ursillo watched the sun go down over the Common and the Charles River this evening.
Further upstream, in the ever aptly named Watertown, Pat Miguel Tomaino watched a nice sunset over the Charles as well: Read more.
By adamg - 1/19/24 - 11:36 am
Mary Ellen spotted a youngish bald eagle (you can tell because his head still isn't completely white) high up in a tree along the Cow Island Pond section of the Charles River on the West Roxbury/Dedham line today.
By adamg - 1/14/24 - 1:43 pm
Yesterday afternoon, just before the deluge that gave us That Rainbow, the Long Ditch that connects two loops of the Charles at the Dedham/Needham line (dug by the busy-beaver colonial settlers who also gave us the Mother Brook), had overflowed its banks and was flooding the nearby marshes of Cutler Park. As it was designed to do. Read more.
By adamg - 1/10/24 - 3:42 pm
It was pretty dark and stormy looking over the Charles as our own Ron Newman made his way over the Longfellow around 1:30 p.m.
Earlier though, roving UHub photographer David Fisher captured a rainbow over Jamaica Plain, then a full up Fort Point Channel (on the South Boston side): Read more.
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