Beaver on Adams Street with a couple of concerned people
By adamg - Sat, 03/15/2025 - 10:16am

A beaver that clambered up from the Neponset River at Lower Mills last night didn't want to go back to its watery home - would-be rescuers spent nearly two hours trying unsuccessfully to convince it to head back down to the river before Milton Police came to the rescue with a recycling bin - which they gently placed atop it and then slowly pushed it to the water. Read more.

Tree across path at Millennium Park
By adamg - Mon, 12/02/2024 - 11:04am

A concerned citizen filed a 311 complaint about some demolition work along the path that follows Sawmill Brook at Millennium Park in West Roxbury: Read more.

By adamg - Thu, 10/03/2024 - 8:01pm

Gov. Healey announced today that Nibi the beaver is safe to stay with the Chelmsford wildlife rehabbers who have raised her since she was just a wee nibbler, ordering MassWildlife not to make good on its plot to force a two-year-old with no wilderness experience to survive on her own: Read more.

A beaver in water with some fresh greens
By adamg - Tue, 05/16/2023 - 2:13pm

Mary Ellen watched this beaver at Cow Island Pond (the part of the Charles off Rivermoor Street in West Roxbury) make several trips with fresh greens the other day - so maybe bringing lunch home for the kids, rather than doing construction.

Beaver along the Charles River
By adamg - Mon, 08/01/2022 - 1:48pm

It's got to be frustrating to be a Millennium Park beaver these days: There's just not enough water to dam up along the Charles, but especially in Sawmill Brook, which no longer empties into the Charles because it no longer flows. This morning, Mary Ellen spotted this once eager beaver forced to waddle across mud and what's left of the water.

Update: Mary Ellen posted video showing that the little guy was able to get a bit of a swim in.

Beaver
By adamg - Sat, 12/04/2021 - 10:38am

Mike B. spotted this eager beaver in Sawmill Brook at Millennium Park in West Roxbury this morning - and some of its toothwork. Read more.

Beaver in Charles River
By adamg - Wed, 05/01/2019 - 12:46pm

Roving UHub photographer Mary Ellen spotted this beaver giving her the eye as he or she swam in the Charles at Millennium Park this morning, near a big beaver house where Sawmill Brook empties into the river.

By adamg - Tue, 05/03/2011 - 5:58pm

Beaver in a box