Some guy who just moved to Boston (to go to BC, from the looks of things), is freaked out by all the turkeys in Boston.
Ed. note: Tonight, I opened our side door to throw out some trash and there was an oppssum just sitting there, all "don't kill me!"
Cambridge Day introduces us to Asian jumping worms, which are really more like Asian wriggling worms, but in any case are worse for the local flora than all the other earthworms that came over with Europeans. You can recognize them by the white band around them and by the way they wriggle intensely when prodded.
Robert Orthman of Roslindale was about to let his two dogs go out for some air when he looked outside this afternoon.
Mary Ellen spotted a hummingbird topping off today in Newton's Nahantan Park before the long migration south for the winter.
Bostonscigirl wonders:
What is the etiquette? Can I just start driving?
Wicked Local Cambridge reports Cambridge wants to hire a "rat liaison," not to negotiate terms of surrender with Remy and Ben to serve as a sort of rat czar to deal with growing numbers of rar complaints from residents, only you can't call the person a czar in the People's Republic.
Earlier:
Newton residents come to grim realization that their garden city has rats.
The Albino Wineo spotted this turkey just outside the Equinox health club on Franklin Street downtown today.
Arlington Police report two children were attacked by a coyote yesterday afternoon in Arlington: A two-year-old girl on Epping Street was bitten in the back and then briefly dragged by a coyote, then ten minutes later, another two-year old girl on Summer Hill Circle, about a half mile away, was scratched by a coyote. Read more.
A great blue heron preened itself while a couple of turtles watched its every move on Jamaica Pond this afternoon (even more turtles watched from the other side on what is normally the pond's turtle log).
Greg Cook kayaked through Rumney Marsh in Saugus yesterday and watched thousands of swallows murmurating. He also spotted fiddler crabs. Lots and lots of fiddler crabs.
Yesterday, roving UHub photographer Dan Peters spied this comfy coyote up a hill at the part of the Arnold Arboretum in Roslindale that's across Walter Street from the main part of the Arbs, where the solar panels are.
Mary Ellen spotted this eagle at Millennium Park in West Roxbury early this morning.
Possinger's before and after shots.
Chris Possinger reports:
Watching my kid at the playground at Boynton and Hall St. in JP and heard a munching sound. Looked over and it was a squirrel munching on a large vertebrae. Called the Staties just in case, but I don't think it's human.
Watertown News reports the attack. which left another dog injured, happened in the area of Walnut Street on Friday night.
A pair of ducks taking a break this afternoon along the shores of Jamaica Pond, which more and more is looking like a giant pot of pea soup as the blue-but-so-far-mostly-green algae keep the pond closed to fishing, boating and dog swimming.
Mary Ellen spotted this juvenile yellow-crowned night heron in the Back Bay Fens, amazingly serene given what's going on right behind it: Read more.
The New England Aquarium reports its divers rescued an ocean sunfish, also known as a mola mola and, at least in the Boston area, as a baby wheel, Jay, that had gotten trapped behind a construction barrier along the East Boston shore: Read more.
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